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Long Day’s Journey into Night

Eugene O’Neill finished his Pulitzer Prize-winning play Long Day’s Journey into Night by 1941, but it was not produced and published until1956, three years after his death, because of its autobiographical subject matter. The play is set at the summer home of the Tyrone family in 1912.

Call Numbers for Browsing the Shelves

• PS3529.N5

Circulating Books – A Selected List

• Bloom, Harold (ed.). Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night. 1987.

                    Call Number: PS3529.N5 L634 1987

• Carpenter, Frederic I. Eugene O’Neill. 1964.

                    Call Number: PS3529.N5 Z578

• Manheim, Michael (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O’Neill. 1998.

                    Call Number: PS3529.N5 Z575 1998

• O’Neill, Eugene. Long Day’s Journey into Night. 1955.

                   Call Number: PS3529.N5 L6 2001

• Siebold, Thomas (ed.). Readings on Eugene O’Neill. 1998.

                  Call Number: PS3529.N5 Z7927 1998

• Murphy, Brenda. O'Neill: Long Day's Journey into Night. 2001. 
  • Call Number: PS3529.N5 L637 2001
• Floyd, Virginia.  Eugene O'Niell: A World View.  1979. 
  • Call Number: PS3529.N5 Z637

LINCCWeb online catalog – Search Terms

• O’Neill, Eugene

Reference Materials

• Critical Survey of Drama, 2^nd Revised Edition. – Call Number: REF PN1625.C68 2003

o        Vol. 5, pg. 2528-2530

• Drama Criticism. – Call Number: REF PN1625.D72

o        Vol. 20, pg. 172-4, 184-9, 191, 195, 205, 209, 261-79, 284, 286

• Drama for Students. – Call Number: REF PN1601.D595

o        Vol. 2

• Masterplots II: Drama Series. – Call Number: REF PN6112.5.M37 1990

o        Vol. 3, pg. 986-91

• Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. – Call Number: REF PN771.G27

o        Vol. 1, pg. 395, 398-407

o        Vol. 6, pg. 333-37

o        Vol. 49, pg. 245-6, 249, 252, 287, 295

Research Databases

To access Valencia’s research databases, open your Atlas account, select ‘Search the Library’, then select ‘Databases A-Z’.

• Academic Search Complete
• JSTOR
• Literature Resources from Gale
• Films on Demand 

Films on Demand- Database 

• Sidney Lumet Discusses Adapting Plays to Film (FULL VIDEO)
  • DESCRIPTION: On this episode of Camera Three, Sidney Lumet, John Gassner, and Peretz Johnnes examine how to best adapt stage plays to film. Topics include: film technique, interpretation, editing, and preparation. Excerpts from A View from the Bridge and A Long Day's Journey into Night provide examples.

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