American Decades
"The New O'Neill Play"
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...
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1920's The Arts Primary Sources
- "The New O'Neill Play"
- New York Dada
- Documenting the Eskimos
- Selections from The Book of American Negro Poetry
- Art of Alfred Stieglitz
- Bessie Smith's Blues
- "From the Memoirs of a Private Detective"
- Rhapsody in Blue
- Dempsey and Firpo
- Calder's Circus
- The General
- The Jazz Singer
- "Blue Skies"
- "Far from Well"
- Steamboat Willie
- Lulu in Hollywood
- Blood Memory
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
The 1920's: Primary Sources
