O'Neill: Long Day's Journey into Night

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This is the first full production history of Long Day's Journey Into Night, by Eugene O'Neill, one of the most influential plays of the twentieth century. It provides a detailed account of the most significant productions throughout the world, on stage, film, and television. Brenda Murphy examines the unique circumstances that led to the posthumous world premiere in Stockholm, in a Swedish translation. Murphy also explores the subsequent first production in English, on Broadway, which established a standard for future directors and actors. The book conveys the unique interpretations of the Tyrone family by such actors as Fredric March, Jason Robards, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Katharine Hepburn, Colleen Dewhurst, Ruby Dee, Kevin Spacey, Jack Lemmon, and Alan Bates, among other distinguished theatre artists. An extensive production chronology provides details about nearly 100 productions throughout the world. This illustrated history also includes an extensive bibliography, discography and videography.

Brenda Murphy is Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Congressional Theatre: Dramatizing McCarthyism on Stage, Film, and Television (Cambridge,1999 ISBN 0521640881), Miller: Death of a Salesman (Cambridge, 1995 ISBN 0521434513, 1995), Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan: A Collaboration in the Theatre (Cambridge,1992, ISBN 052400953)), and American Realism and American Drama, 1880-1940 (Cambridge, 1987, ISBN 0521571847) and the editor of Understanding Death of a Salesman (with Susan Abbotson, 1999), The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights (Cambridge, 1999, ISBN 0521571847), and A Realist in the American Theatre: Selected Drama Criticism of William Dean Howells (1992).

"...this volume will be immensely vaulable to anyone seeking information on or an introduction to Journey." CHOICE