Anna Christie Eugene O'NEILL (1888 - 1953) Eugene O'Neill's drama Anna Christie was first produced on Broadway in 1921 and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1922. It focuses on three main characters: Chris Christopherson, a Swedish captain of a coal barge and longtime seaman, his daughter Anna, who has grown up separated from her father on a Minnesota farm, and Mat Burke, an Irish stoker who works on steamships. At the beginning of the play Chris and Anna are reunited after fifteen years apart. Anna comes to live on her father's coal barge, but hides the secret of her past from him. When...
Anna Christie Eugene O'NEILL (1888 - 1953) Eugene O'Neill's drama Anna Christie was first produced on Broadway in 1921 and received the Pulitzer ...
Eugene O'Neill was an American playwright in the 20th century. O'Neill's works are known for their realism and he is often compared to other famous playwrights before him such as Chekhov, Ibsen, and Strindberg.
Eugene O'Neill was an American playwright in the 20th century. O'Neill's works are known for their realism and he is often compared to other famous pl...
Eugene O'Neill's 1922 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, "Anna Christie," is the story of a young woman who following an illness decides to visit and spend some time with her father, a coal barge captain who she hardly knows. During this time she meets a sailor, Mat, who is looking to settle down, and the two fall in love. "Anna Christie" is a gripping drama of a woman torn between the expectations of two men, her father and her lover, and the shocking confession of her past life that this conflict evokes.
Eugene O'Neill's 1922 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, "Anna Christie," is the story of a young woman who following an illness decides to visit and spend...