O'Neill, Eugene: 1888-1953
Long Day's Journey Into Night, 1941 - Information about the Book
- General Information
- It is widely regarded as his magnum opus and one of the great American plays of the 20th century.
- On the twelfth wedding anniversary with his wife Carlotta, O'Neill gave her the script of the play. Yet it was not performed until 1956
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- Facts
- Winner of the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; published posthumously in 1956.
- Character Analysis
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- Main Themes
- Articles
- Commentary:
Considered by many to be O'Neill's finest dramatic work, Long Day's Journey into Night is a goldmine for discussion of family dynamics under the strain of illness, unemployment, low self-esteem, and substance abuse. The nuances of these relationships are developed with the deep understanding of personal experience and are to be taken seriously as an opportunity for the health care provider to study them carefully.
Willms, Janice L.
Excerpted, with permission, from the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database at New York University School of Medicine, © New York University. - Commentary: "In this drama, O'Neill resurrects and exorcises old ghosts, coming to terms with his father but not with his mother, for whom he shows some sympathy but never forgiveness or understanding." Margaret Loftus Ranald
- About Long Day's Journey Into Night
- Contour in Time: "O\’Neill’s picture of his younger self and of his brother Jamie is on the surface clear enough. Jamie, like his brother and father, is lost, embittered and cynical, wanting his mother whose rejection of him perhaps reaches farther back than the time when morphine forced her into drugged isolation."
- Meet the master artist through one of his most important works: "Eugene O’Neil introduced American audiences to Realism—the idea that a play should look and sound as much as possible like real life." With a lot of additional information. The Kenndey Center
- About "Long Day's Journey Into Night" by Martin Payrhuber
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Critical Interpretation
- Talk about the Roundabout Theatre Company Production of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” WNYC Radio, New York; June 3, 2016
- Set in 1912, "Long Day’s Journey Into Night" still feels like a contemporary drama. KCRW Radio, Santa Monica; June 14, 2018
- Audio (8:37)
Caitlin Shetterly reports on the play, which echoes O'Neil's own troubled role as a father. NPR Radio; July 12, 2003 - A Journey into Revelation: "The play is a critique on what "The American Dream" has done to America and the Americans." Ruzbeh Babee; 2011
- Critical Analysis with synopsis and commentary: "Few artists, no matter their stature, have been able to achieve this level of immortality in a single work. O’Neill did so." Nasrullah Mambrol; September 29, 2020
- Myth and Realism: "The play is clearly part of the continuum of the theme of lost American innocence". M.C. Ambrose; Sptember 2018
- Collection of Essays
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