by Eugene O'Neill, Harold Bloom
*yawn*
Playwright Eugene O'Neill sold Random House the text of his intensely autobiographical 1941 play on the proviso that the play not be produced during O'Neill's lifetime. Two years after the playwright's death in 1953, the play was given its first Broadway staging and won a Pulitzer Prize. Set in 1912...
Don't read this play if you or your family have a history of drug addiction and/or alcoholism and you don't want to be reminded of it. This play is about the disintegration of a family whose members are, variously, addicted to drugs or alcohol; tormented by the failure of their dreams; or dying from...
Long Day’s Journey into Night is a true embodiment of that saying “The pen is mightier than the sword.” Witnessing a day in the life of the Tyrone family is like watching an all day fencing match, every member of the family constantly challenging each other to verbal duels. Some of their cutting rem...
Great book. I love the interplay between the family members. Loved the movie with Katherine Hepburn and Sir Laurence Olivier.
Probably the greatest work in American drama. The play deals with the impact of addiction and denial on a family. The fact that the family members are all brilliant only seems to make the situation worse.
Another one of those books (or plays, in this instance), that just reached me on a very emotional level during a hard time in my life. Everything I read in this play is something I feel I can relate to, and somehow, just reading it makes me feel less alone.
This play is a huge downer and occasionally overwrought. And I like that.
[These notes were made in 1982:]. The first thing that struck me about this play, as about most modern plays, was the minuteness of the stage directions - far beyond what any director could reasonably be expected to reproduce. It has often occurred to me that these playwrights, with their desire to...
One of the great plays ever. I wonder why it is that the US had some great dramatists in the twentieth century and yet their novelists are generally best forgotten?
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