DISCLAIMER: WIKIPEDIA RESEARCH AHEAD. I can't find my goddamned Brockett, it is absolutely nowhere in this house but then where did it go. [confused ben body language]
So Eugene O'Neill. An interesting guy. His most lasting contribution to the American theatre was realism; stark realism, more often than not. Stark because all but one (1) of his plays is a tragedy, the tragic* comedy Ah, Wilderness!, a piece largely remembered for Mark Chevalier's purple, brown, and skeletal set. Sigh... so tragic. His importance as a force of American theatre was reinforced during his lifetime as he won four (4!) Pulitzer Prizes, awarded for: