 O'Neill was the winner of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize. He carried forward the dramatic realism, that was started by Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, and August Strindberg. He weaves characters who struggles in the society to sustain their desires and hope, but in the end are disappointed and dishearten. All his plays deals with tragedy, except "Ah, Wilderness!", which is a comical play.
He has written one-act plays which are A Wife for a Life, Fog, Thirst, Before Breakfast and his full-length plays, Beyond the Horizon (play), won Pulitzer Prize, The Emperor Jones, The First Man, The Hairy Ape, Anna Christie, won Pulitzer Prize, The Fountain (Play), Marco Millions, All God's Chillun Got Wings, Desire Under the Elms, Lazarus Laughed, The Great God Brown, Strange Interlude, won Pulitzer Prize, Dynamo, Mourning Becomes Electra, Ah, Wilderness!, Days Without End, The Iceman Cometh, written 1939, first performed 1946, Hughie, written 1941, first performed 1959, Long Day's Journey Into Night, written 1941, first performed 1956 won Pulitzer Prize 1957, A Moon for the Misbegotten, written 1941-1943, first performed 1947, A Touch of the Poet, completed in 1942, first performed 1958, More Stately Mansions, second draft found in O'Neill's papers, first performed 1967, The Calms of Capricorn, published in 1983.
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