In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

When he died on 27 November 1953, Gladstone O'Neill was (1) ______ recognised as one of the major dramatists of the modern world. Four times a Pulitzer Prize-winner, he had also been (2) ______ the 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature. His plays have been translated into most major languages and read by more people than those of (3) ______ other playwright except W Shakespeare and maybe G Bernard Shaw. O'Neill was a puzzle to his friends - a genuinely shy, brooding, complicated man in whom (4) ______ alternated with touching kindness. He was both, naive and worldly. One biographer found him "sentimental one instant, hard as nails the next." His widow, after 26 years with O'Neill, said, "To (5) ______ his work you must understand the man, for the work and the man are one."