Eugene O'Neill

This powerful play is a dramatized autobiography of the great American playwright, Eugene O'Neill, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Long Day's Journey Into Night was written in 1940 but not staged until 1956, after O'Neill's death. Unashamedly autobiographical, it is, as he puts it himself in the dedicatory note, 'a play of...

When Eugene O’Neill was conferred the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936, the award committee praised “the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions” of the American playwright’s dramatic works, which remain topical and preserve their resonance to this day. This extensive selection includes six of O’Neill’s most famous and performed works for the stage, from the early one-act play Bound East...