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O'Neill: Long Day's Journey into Night

O'Neill: Long Day's Journey into Night

O'Neill: Long Day's Journey into Night

Author:
Brenda Murphy, University of Connecticut
Published:
November 2001
Availability:
Available
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780521665759

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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.

    • Was the first full production history of Long Day's Journey Into Night
    • Includes both stage and media productions throughout the world
    • Includes extensive production chronology, bibliography, discography and videography

    Product details

    September 2001
    Hardback
    9780521661973
    272 pages
    223 × 148 × 28 mm
    0.5kg
    14 b/w illus.
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. The New York premiere
    • 2. Productions in English
    • 3. Productions in translation
    • 4. Media adaptions
    • Production chronology
    • Discography
    • Videography
    • Bibliography.
      Author
    • Brenda Murphy , University of Connecticut

      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).