Contents: IntroductionPlot Summary Characters Themes Style Critical Overview Criticism Sources |
Further Reading
Hayes, Richard. “A Requiem for Mortality,” Commonweal, Vol. 64, February 1, 1957, pp. 467-68.
A belated review of the Broadway production of Long Day’s Journey into Night praising both the play and the cast for achieving “tragic nobility” within a realistic framework.
McDonnell, Thomas P. “O’Neill’s Drama of the Psyche,” Catholic World, Vol. 197, April, 1963, pp. 120-25.
Argues that Long Day’s Journey into Night is O’Neill’s apotheosis in his quest for a tragedy of self, of his own tormented psyche.
Manheim, Michael. Eugene O’Neill’s New Language of Kinship, Syracuse University Press, 1982.
This study’s introduction, its chapter on Long Day’s Journey into Night, and its appendix focused on the play’s motifs offer solid help in interpreting the play.
Pfister, Joel. “The Cultural Web in O’Neill’s Journey,” in Staging Depth: Eugene O’Neill and the Politics of Psychological Discourse, University of North Carolina Press, 1995, pp. 203-15.
Relates Mary from Long Day’s Journey into Night to Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Annie Keeney in O’Neill’s earlier play, Ile.
Raleigh, John Henry. “O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night and New England Irish-Catholicism,” Partisan Review, Vol. 26, no. 4, Fall, 1959, pp. 573-92.
A helpful background study that relates the “dualism of religion-blasphemy” that permeates the play to Catholicism and Irish myth.
