Long Day's Journey into Night (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Eugene O’Neill
- First Published: 1956
- Type of Work: Play
- Genres: Drama, Psychological drama, Tragedy
- Subjects: Family or family life, Self-discovery, Acting or actors, Memory, Parents and children, 1910’s, New England, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Drug addiction or addicts, Life, philosophy of, Morphine
- Locales: New London, CT
By 1940, O’Neill had won three Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize in Literature, but the work for which he is remembered and praised and revered as America's foremost dramatist is Long Day's Journey into Night, his autobiographical work dealing with the torment of his own family. It earned for him a final Pulitzer Prize posthumously in 1956. In the dedication of the play to his wife Carlotta, O’Neill says:
I mean it as a tribute to your love and tenderness which gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play—write it with deep...
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