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Eugene O'Neill
Standard Name: O'Neill, Eugene
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Djuna Barnes | In the late 1910s DB
became involved with the Provincetown Players
, writing plays and also acting in their productions. In Provincetown, Massachusetts she came into contact with Eugene O'Neill
and Edna St Vincent Millay |
| Occupation | Elizabeth Robins | ER
set off for New York, where she met actor James O'Neill
(father of playwright Eugene O'Neill
), who helped launch her acting career. |
| Textual Features | Carson McCullers | This includes much fascinating detail about the circumstances and forms of her earliest writing, and paints a vivid picture of her underlying attitudes: the longing for an exotic world quite unlike the familiar terrain of... |
| Textual Production | Jan Morris | Morris wrote on a wide range of topics for the Times, contributing The Comic Strip in American Life and The Plays of Eugene O'Neill to a collection of articles jointly titled The American Press... |
| Textual Production | Una Troubridge | UT
helped the bass singer Nicola Rossi-Lemeni
prepare a libretto for the Italian staging of the opera based on Eugene O'Neill
's The Emperor Jones. Ormrod, Richard. Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. Carroll and Graf, 1985. 299-301 Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997. 374 |
Timeline
1 November 1920
US playwright Eugene O'Neill
had his first big success when Emperor Jones, the earliest serious drama by an American with a Black protagonist, had its debut in New York in a production by the...