Long Day's Journey into Night | Critical Overview

In 1956, the production of Long Day's Journey into Night by the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Sweden won much praise for O'Neill. Potential producers soon pressured Carlotta O'Neill to release the work for an American staging, and after several months she turned the play over to Jose Quintero and two associates. Quintero's earlier revival of The Iceman Cometh, which opened in May of 1956, had already prompted new enthusiasm for O'Neill. His New York production of Long Day's Journey into Night, coupled with the play's publication by the Yale University Press, fully...

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