Long Day's Journey into Night

A Long Day's Journey into Night (English Original Title: Long Day 's Journey Into Night ) is a play (1956 ) by American playwright Eugene O'Neill, which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and the Tony Award was awarded in 1957.

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The piece describes the time between morning and midnight one day in 1912 and shows the life and suffering of the American family Tyrone, which breaks down in self-imposed constraints and unfulfilled and repressed dreams. The Miserly Father James Tyrone, his morphine -addicted wife, Mary, of drinking son Jamie and the sick son Edmund are connected to each other in love-hate relationship. The egocentric main characters are not able to break away from the braid of mutual dependencies. Only Edmund place at the end of the piece the way out of the vicious circle of mutual recriminations.

Eugene O'Neill said of the play, it was written with " blood and tears, born of early pain."

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• Literature ( English )
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