Aesthetics of Failure
Critic Clive Barnes once called Eugene O''Neill the "world''s worst great playwright" and Brooks Atkinson called him "a tragic dramatist with a great knack for old-fashioned melodrama." These descriptions of the man can also be used to describe his work. Despite the fact that O''Neill is the only American playwright to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and his last works are some of America''s...
Critic Clive Barnes once called Eugene O''Neill the "world''s worst great playwright" and Brooks Atkinson called him "a tragic dramatist with a great knack for old-fashioned melodrama." These descriptions of the man can also be used to describe his work. Despite the fact that O''Neill is the only American playwright to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and his last works are some of America''s...
