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Eugene O'Neill
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Film, Theatre & Television
10th Grade
04/14/2016
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He typically avoided melodrama, which is an exaggerated and overemotional type of drama.


His style also has a raw, factual tone to it.


Tragic drama because all of his plays have a somber theme to it.


All of his plays have something to do with the human psyche.

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Attended St. Aloysius Academy for Boy where he received a Catholic upbringing. 
Attended De La Salle Institute when he returned to New York City in 1900. 
Attended Betts Academy in Stamford, Connecticut. 
Enrolled at Princeton University in 1906 and he left ater 10 months in school because he had a passion for theater, not studying.
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Ella was also still grieving for Eugene's older brother, Edmund, who had died of the measles three years earlier. He continued on with his role of Monte Cristo shortly after Eugene's birth.

 

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Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936.


Pulitzer Prize in 1922 for Anna Christie, in 1928 for Strange Interlude, and in 1920 for Beyond the Horizon.


Tony Award for Long Day's Journey into Night.

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