Hairy Ape

Eugene O'Neill was a prominent American playwright in the 20th century. O'Neill won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936 and he also was one of the first American writers of realism. Some of O'Neill's most famous plays include Long Day's Journey into Night, Anna Christie, The Iceman Cometh, and Morning Becomes Electra. The Hairy Ape is a play that centers around a working-class brute, known as Yank, who struggles to find his place in the world.