Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill Side by Side

Description

“Loneliness, the condition into which we are born, and from which we spend much of our lives trying to escape — whether through love and sex, or alcohol or drugs or even, yes, art — is a theme that resounds throughout the works of Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams, two of America’s greatest playwrights, if not the two greatest.”

Charles Isherwood

In this SDG we will examine 7 plays of each of these two giants of American Theater, analyze in depth and compare their style.

Weekly Topics

  1. Beyond the Horizon, 1918 - Pulitzer Prize, 1920

  2. Anna Christie, 1920 - Pulitzer Prize, 1922

  3. Desire Under the Elms, 1924

  4. Strange Interlude, 1928 - Pulitzer Prize

  5.  Strange Interlude, 1928 - Pulitzer Prize

  6. The Iceman Cometh, written 1939, published 1940, first performed 1946

  7. Long Day's Journey into Night, written 1941, first performed 1956; Pulitzer Prize 1957

  8. A Moon for the Misbegotten, written 1941–1943, first performed 1947

 

  1. Not About Nightingales (1938)

  2. The Glass Menagerie (1944)

  3. A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)

  4. Summer and Smoke (1948)

  5. The Rose Tattoo (1951)

  6.  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)

  7. Suddenly Last Summer (1958)