Description: Emerging in the 1910s, Eugene O’Neill was among the strongest voices of modernism in American culture. Together with other members of the Provincetown Players, he revolutionized American drama and its vision of tragedy, earning three Pulitzer Prizes by the age of forty and the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936, years before writing what we now consider his greatest plays. This session explores O’Neill’s path to these honors and the significance of his Nobel Prize.

Speakers

Steven Fredric Bloom, Lasell C

Patrick Midgley, Texas Tech U

Ryder Thornton, Tulane U

Presider

Daniel Larner, Western Washington U