Long Day’s Journey into Night (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Eugene O’Neill
- First Published: 1956
- 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
The Work
Some have called Long Day’s Journey into Night not only Eugene O’Neill’s greatest play but also one of the finest American plays of the twentieth century. More courageously than any American play before, this powerful drama chronicles the ways in which people’s identities emerge, for better or worse, from the family unit and develop through the choices they make as adults. “The past is the present. It’s the future too,” says Mary Tyrone, the mother in this family tragedy.
“Written in tears and blood,” the play is based on O’Neill’s...
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