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American playwright
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
authored
Mourning Becomes Electra
in 1931 among his works; he won the Nobel Prize of 1936 for literature, and people awarded him his fourth Pulitzer Prize for
Long Day's Journey into Night
, produced in 1956.
He won his Nobel Prize "for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy." More than any other dramatist, O'Neill introduced the dramatic realism that Russian playwright
Anton Chekhov
, Norwegian playwright
Henrik Ibsen
, and Swedish playwright
August Strindberg
pioneered to Americans and first used true American vernacular in his speeches.
His plays involve characters, who, engaging in depraved behavior, inhabit the fringes of society, where they struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations but ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair. O'Neill wrote
Ah, Wilderness!
, his only comedy: all his other plays involve some degree of tragedy and personal pessimism.
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