Theater review

By: Alexander Woollcott

Date: November 7, 1920

Source: Woollcott, Alexander. "The New O'Neill Play." Review of The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill. The New York Times, November 7, 1920. Available online at http://www.eoneill.com/artifacts/reviews/ej1_times.htm; website homepage: http://www.eoneill.com (accessed March 14, 2003).

About the Author: Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953) was born in a Broadway hotel room and died in a Boston hotel room. The son of a popular actor, O'Neill turned dramatic writing into a serious art form. He received four Pulitzer Prizes and a Nobel Prize for his contributions to American theater. O'Neill achieved recognition first for his experimental, expressionistic dramas, and later for his mature work in the realist...