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In1920 his first full-length play, Beyond the Horizon, was professionally produced on Broadway. It quickly became popular,and won the Pulitzer Prize, and the name of O’Neill became known throughout the country.
II. Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953)
Introduction Literary Career Characteristics Comment
A. Introduction
Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill was born in a Broadway hotel room in New York City on October 16, 1888. O'Neill won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936, and Pulitzer Prizes for four of his plays: Beyond the Horizon (1920); Anna Christie (1922); Strange Interlude (1928); and Long Day's Journey Into Night (1957). O'Neill is credited with raising American dramatic theater from its narrow origins to an art form respected around the world. He is regarded as America's premier playwright.

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And so it was I entered the broken world
To trace the visionary company of love, its voice An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled) But not for long to hold each desperate choice. --- “The Broken Tower” by Hart Crane
Clifford Odets
A survey of American drama
1. 2. 3. 4. A gradual process of developing into an literary department equal to poetry and novel 1920s American drama renaissance 1930s American drama of the Great Depression Post-War American drama
American Drama
A survey of American drama
1. 2. A gradual process of developing into an literary department equal to poetry and novel 1920s American drama renaissance
Criticizing the dehumanized effect of modern mechanical civilization “Mother of American drama”, contributing to the development of American drama and American fegram of Character relationship:

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Ⅰ Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888−1953) • A. His Life
He was an American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature. His plays are among the first to introduce into American drama the techniques of realism, associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. His plays were among the first to include speeches in American vernacular and involve characters on the fringes of society, engaging in depraved behavior, where they struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations, but ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair. O'Neill wrote only one well-known comedy (Ah, Wilderness!).[Nearly all of his other plays involve some degree of tragedy and personal pessimism.
Part Two Major Playwrights

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Characterization of Willy
Willy’s personality is projected through other characters in the play. Ben – Willy’s love of nature and the pioneering spirit; Willy’s role model, his alter ego and conscience. Linda – Willy’s love of the city and its settled spirit Biff – Willy’s love for nature Happy-- Willy’s desire to succeed in the city
Characteristics of the play
Stage setting: the Elizabethan kind of stage, the artful manipulation of light, shift of time House frame – transparent of the setting – the psychological drama of Willy in a stream-of-consciousness technique Flashbacks: Ben and the Boston woman
Seascape (1975, Pulitzer Prize)
Three Tall Women (1994, Pulitzer Prize)
The Theater of the Absurd
The Theater of the Absurd came into vogue in the 1950s and 1960s and ceased to be dominant in the 1970s. It refers to some play the theme of which centers on the meaninglessness of life with its pain and suffering that seems funny, even ridiculous. In these works the playwrights try to force the audience to face up to the human condition as it is, instead of presenting a false picture of it and pandering to the public need for reassurance.

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof(热铁皮屋顶上的猫) （another Pulitzer prize-winning play） (威廉姆斯式主题的混合体)
Suddenly Last Summer(夏天的突变)(同性恋)
Sweet Bird of Youth(可爱的青鸟) Period of Adjustment(适应期) Night of the Iguana(鬣蜥之夜) The Milk Train Dose Not Stop Here Anymore(牛奶车不再在此停留(tíngliú)) Red Battery Sign(红色的烟台信号)
Vieux Carre(老广场)
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The Glass menagerie
Theatrical form: a “memory play” (the narrator summons moments from his memory)
Characters: the Wingfields (Amanda, Tom, Laura) and Jim O’Connor
the embodiment of reality
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Themes
▪ Illusion and reality With the shattering of illusion, people have to come to terms with ruthless reality with courage and confidence
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Stylistically: Romantic Southern Gothic Tradition
Female Characterization Women, portrayed often with great sympathy, are at the same time fragile and strong, attractive and repulsive, lonely and vulnerable.

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II. Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953)
Introduction Literary Career Characteristics Comment
A. Introduction
Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936, and Pulitzer Prizes for four of his plays: Beyond the Horizon (1920); Anna Christie (1922); Strange Interlude (1928); and Long Day's Journey Into Night (1957).
B. Literary Career
O’Neill worked on a variety of one-act plays describing the way an individual willfully connives at his or her own doom. During 1913-1914 he wrote nine one-act plays,then he attended George Pierce Baker’s “47 Workshop”at Harvard University from 1914 to 1915. He wrote six more one-act plays during 1916-1917,and four in 1918. In1920 his first full-length play, Beyond the Horizon, was professionally produced on Broadway. It quickly became popular,and won the Pulitzer Prize, and the name of O’Neill became known throughout the country.

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• 最著名的是E.赖斯的纽约剧组所开创的活报剧（Living Newspaper）。
• 后来，美国国会认为联邦剧院的演出是一种共产主义的威胁，于1939年通过法案把它扼杀了。
为了规范事业单位聘用关系，建立和完善适应社会主义市场经济体制的事业单位工作人员聘用制度，保障用人单位和职工的合法权益
其数量之多甚至无法统计。
为了规范事业单位聘用关系，建立和完善适应社会主义市场经济体制的事业单位工作人员聘用制度，保障用人单位和职工的合法权益
为了规范事业单位聘用关系，建立和完善适应社会主义市场经济体制的事业单位工作人员聘用制度，保障用人单位和职工的合法权益
• 纽约国际弗林吉戏剧节（International Fringe Festival）
• 纽约亚洲表演艺术节（Asia Performing Arts Festival）
• 汉森国际木偶剧节（The Hanson International Festival of Puppet）
• 危险戏剧节（Danger Festival） • 世界上以莎士比亚戏剧为主题的戏剧节堪称最广，
为了规范事业单位聘用关系，建立和完善适应社会主义市场经济体制的事业单位工作人员聘用制度，保障用人单位和职工的合法权益
20世纪美国戏剧
• 第一次世界大战以后，美国戏剧开始多样化，最杰出的剧作家是E. 奥尼尔。
• 创作出《琼斯皇帝》、《安娜克里斯蒂》、《上帝的儿女都有翅膀》和《奇异的插曲》等名剧。
为了规范事业单位聘用关系，建立和完善适应社会主义市场经济体制的事业单位工作人员聘用制度，保障用人单位和职工的合法权益

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The absurdity of life
Albee has been linked with the traditions of the Theater of the Absurd. His plays seem to have dwelled on one problem only, i.e., the absurdity of human life built very much on a frail illusion and spiritual emptiness. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? George and Martha, a son, 21th birthday, Nick and Honey
Long Day’s Journey into Night
Elmer Rice (1892-1967)
The Adding Machine (1923) Off-stage devices: sound and light
Susan Glaspell (1882-1948)
Mother of American Drama Founded the Provincetown Players One-act play: Trifles《鸡毛蒜皮》
Desire Under the Elms (1924)
Ephraim Cabot, tall, gaunt, 75 Eben Cabot, a son from Ephraim’s second marriage, tall, good-looking, sinewy, and 25 years old Abbie Putnam, Ephraims’s new wife, buxom, full of vitality, and 35 years old
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1940s: Tennessee William dominated the theater. The Glass Menagerie The early fifties: Arthur Miller, William Inge, Death of a Salesman The late fifties: a temporary decline 1960s: American drama picked up fresh energy. The Theater of the Absurd. Heavily political. A tendency to “decentralize” from Broadway. Edward Albee, David Mamet
Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953)
Born in a goddam hotel room and dying in a hotel room! Nobel Prize in 1936, Beyond the Horizon Father, James O’Neill a famous actor Voyage to South America and South Africa Tuberculosis, sanitarium Greenwich Village, New York
The Glass Menagerie
The Wingfields: Mother Amanda,Tom, Laura Jim O’Connor Escape, prison
A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche Dubois New Orleans Stella and Stanley Kowalski Mitch
Major Plays
Bound East for Cardiff (1916) Beyond the Horizon (1920) first Pulitzer Anna Christie (1921) second Pulitzer The Hairy Ape (1922) Strange Interlude (1928) third Pulitzer Marco Million (1928) Long Day’s Journey into Night (1956) fourth Pulitzer
William Inge (1913-1973)
Bus Stop: Cherie
Edward Albee (1928-)
The Zoo Story (1958)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961-62,
Tony Award)
A Delicate Balance (1966, Pulitzer Prize)
Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
All My Sons (1947) Death of A Salesman (1947) the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize The Crucible (1953) After the Fall (1964) The Price (1968) A typical theme: the dilemma of modern man in relation to his family and work
Characteristics of the play
Stage setting: the Elizabethan kind of stage, the artful manipulation of light, shift of time House frame – transparent of the setting – the psychological drama of Willy in a stream-of-consciousness technique Flashbacks: Ben and the Boston woman
Clifford Odets (1906-1963)
Waiting for Lefty (1935)
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
The Glass Menagerie (1945) A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) Pulitzer Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) Pulitzer Night of the Iguana (1961) The Milk Train Does Not Stop Here Anymore (1963)
Why “Virginia Woolf”?
Martha is well read and has a kind of respect for language. She would have identified herself Virginia Woolf who had an incredible amount of verbal wit and could have committed suicide all the same. “Virginia Woolf” is used as a homophone for “wolf,” repeating a line from a ballad, “who is afraid of the big, bad wolf?” The wolf is a metaphor for the hopelessness that stretches before them.
American Drama
1916: Bound East for Cardiff. Modern American dramatists began to attract attention. 1920s: a renaissance of drama ,Eugene O’Neill, Elmer Rice, Maxwell Anderson 1930s: the drama was preoccupied with social concerns. Eugene O’Neill, Clifford Odets
Seascape (1975, Pulitzer Prize)
Three Tall Women (1994, Pulitzer Prize)
The Theater of the Absurd
The Theater of the Absurd came into vogue in the 1950s and 1960s and ceased to be dominant in the 1970s. It refers to some play the theme of which centers on the meaninglessness of life with its pain and suffering that seems funny, even ridiculous. In these works the playwrights try to force the audience to face up to the human condition as it is, instead of presenting a false picture of it and pandering to the public need for reassurance.
Characterization of Willy
Willy’s personality is projected through other characters in the play. Ben – Willy’s love of nature and the pioneering spirit; Willy’s role model, his alter ego and conscience. Linda – Willy’s love of the city and its settled spirit Biff – Willy’s love for nature Happy-- Willy’s desire to succeed in the city