Mourning Becomes Electra Resources

Reading his plays might not be a walk in the park, but you can stroll through the area surrounding O'Neill's home in Danville, California courtesy of the National Park Service

This website contains everything you could possibly want to know about O'Neill and includes productions and spoofs of many of his plays. You can even watch Mourning Becomes Electra in Japanese and still see why Christine is so hateable.

O'Neill rated a film on PBS's "American Experience." Here's a timeline of his life, including a couple of adorable baby pix and photos of his parents. You can get a good feel for how his own family's problems influenced his plays.

The now extinct RKO Pictures, Inc. released a film version of O'Neill's tragedy in 1947. The complete film can't be found online—but you can pick up a copy on Amazon if you feel so inclined. But beware: it's not exactly cheap.

There's no pleasing everyone—and this critic finds little if anything enjoyable about O'Neill's work. He's in the minority—ask the Nobel Prize committee.

What a difference more than a decade can make. This writer can't say enough great stuff about O'Neill.

Here's O'Neill's 1953 obituary from the New York Times.

Take a gander at Orin and Lavinia trying to act natural just a short while after Brant's murder and Christine's suicide.

Give a listen to the constantly re-occurring song that both Seth and the Chantyman sing.

For your listening pleasure, a bunch of old salts singing the tune that made Brant's skin crawl.

It might only be an instrumental version we hear at the start of Homecoming, but check out this version, complete with lyrics, of the song that would become "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."

Dig these authentic photos of classic theatrical productions, courtesy of PBS

Here's an image of O'Neill himself, looking about as happy as most of his plays will make you feel. We like to think it's just all that genius fighting to get out.