Back Дългият път на деня към нощта Bulgarian Eines langen Tages Reise in die Nacht German Ταξίδι μιας μεγάλης μέρας μέσα στη νύχτα Greek Largo viaje hacia la noche Spanish سفر دراز روز در شب Persian Pitkän päivän matka yöhön Finnish Le Long Voyage vers la nuit French מסע ארוך אל תוך הלילה HE Lungo viaggio verso la notte Italian 夜への長い旅路 Japanese
| Long Day's Journey into Night | |
|---|---|
 First edition 1956 | |
| Written by | Eugene O'Neill |
| Characters | Mary Cavan Tyrone James Tyrone Edmund Tyrone James Tyrone Jr. Cathleen |
| Date premiered | February 2, 1956 |
| Place premiered | Royal Dramatic Theatre Stockholm, Sweden |
| Original language | English |
| Subject | An autobiographical account of an explosive home life with a morphine-addicted mother and alcoholic father. |
| Genre | Tragedy[1][2][3][4] |
| Setting | The summer home of the Tyrones, August 1912 |
Long Day's Journey into Night is a play in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1939–1941 and first published posthumously in 1956.[5] It is widely regarded as his magnum opus and one of the great American plays of the 20th century.[6] It premiered in Sweden in February 1956 and then opened on Broadway in November 1956, winning the Tony Award for Best Play. O'Neill received the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Drama posthumously for Long Day's Journey into Night. The work is openly autobiographical in nature. The "long day" in the title refers to the setting of the play, which takes place during one day.
- ^ "O'Neill, Lumet, Kurosawa, and the great Goldwyn". Esquire. 1962-12-01. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
The theme is one of high tragedy: the unsuccessful struggle to escape the consequences of past actions. In Elizabethan drama, the actions are those of the protagonists, if only in the sense that their own characters, formed by the past, are responsible for the tragedy. Here the father and the elder brother are thus entrapped, like Macbeth or Othello or, better, the heroine of Middleton's The Changeling. But the mother is a different case. The reviewer's cliché about "the inevitability of Greek tragedy" is for once justified. The mother's drug addiction is not the result of her own actions but of her husband's miserliness in calling in a cheap doctor who gave her morphine to ease the pains of a difficult childbirth. The husband is thus punished for his own character, as in Elizabethan tragedy.
- ^ "BWW Review: Long Day's Journey into Night – The Tragedy of a Family's Downward Spiral". BroadwayWorld. June 12, 2018. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
- ^ Murphy, Brenda (September 20, 2001). O'Neill: Long Day's Journey into Night. Cambridge University Press. p. 94. ISBN 9780521665759.
- ^ Andreach, Robert J. (July 16, 2014). Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre. University Press of America. p. 179. ISBN 9780761864011.
- ^ "Long Day's Journey Into Night". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
- ^ "50 greatest plays of the past 100 years (1913–2013)". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved May 19, 2024.