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Abstract
Eugene O’Neill is a great American dramatist. He towers above American drama like a colossus, and to many critics other American playwrights are only to walk under his huge legs and peep about. He is sometimes ranked among Shaw, Ibsen and Strindberg. Being deeply interested in psychology, O’Neill read deep into his characters and unearthed their hidden emotions and thoughts. He saw human nature in its stark nakedness, and had the courage to depict it most truthfully. O’Neill believed that the real work of an artist is to depict life as he sees it, and this work must be performed by him without fear. O’Neill’s plays caused a lot of controversy, and once soon after his play Desire under the Elms had been acted, all the seventeen actors and actresses were put under arrest for having performed an obscene play on the stage. In all respects O’Neill was an iconoclast of the American theatre. Not only did he revolutionize it by introducing all sorts of in notations, but he also extended its scope.