Eugene O'Neill

Long Day's Journey into Nightwas written in 1940 but not staged until 1956, after O'Neil's death. Unashamedly autobiographical, it is, as he puts it himself in the dedicatory note, 'a play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood', a harrowing attempt to understand himself and his family.

Long Day's Journey Into Night

A play about a family of four psychologically disturbed people reveals aspects of the author's own life.

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It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a sea gull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must always be a little in love with death!

I can't quite gather my thoughts on this yet, but I'll be back soon.

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Second Edition (Yale Nota Bene)

Long Day's Journey into Night

Laura Mauler

It's good at first, but by Act 3 all the themes have been developed and the rest of the play is simply digging in further to the already-established ruts. 

This might be a play that really suffers in the reading as opposed to the performance.

heleen de boever

Haylie

Vanya de Lang 

Well written play about the struggles in the everyday life of a family. Good character development.

Jaclyn

Read this for class, not for me. I️ felt like there was no plot and it was just mainly character driven but in a slow decent into craziness. Too much back and forth, I️ couldn’t even finish this and had to spark note it..so bad!

Meriem💫

I am ruined. This play left me a hallow shell of a human. And god I loved it so.

Autumn 

Gabriela Roxana 

I didn't hate this play in any way. Alas, I didn't like anything about it either.Which is quite sad, since one of his other works, Mourning Becomes Electra is one of my favorite plays of all time.

Long Day's Journey Into Night

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