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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 812.52
EAN num: 9780521665759
ISBN number: 0521665752
Label: Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 268
Printing Date: September 24, 2001
Publishing house: Cambridge University Press
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This is the very first full production history of Long Day's Journey Into Night, by Eugene O'Neill. It provides a detailed account of the most significant productions throughout the world, on stage, film, and television. 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. This history includes a production chronology, bibliography, discography and videography.
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Brenda Murphy's exhaustively researched book on the complete (as of the book's original publication) production history of Eugene O'Neill's 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' was a total joy to read, from cover to cover.
She leaves virtually no stone unturned in her recounting of the details -- both technical and artistic -- of each major (and some not-so-major) production of this justly revered classic and her analysis, while carefully considered and thorough, is expressed in prose which is never dry or dull, but conveys as much of the immediacy of each interpretation as possible.
The question has never been whether or not 'Long Day's Journey' is a "Great American Play", but, rather, if it is "THE Great American Play". Well, having been madly in love with this play since I very first saw it as an impressionable young teenager, I'd have to say that my vote goes solidly with O'Neill's darkly moving masterpiece. But in a recent poll of the American public, 'Death Of A Salesman' came in very first as the greatest American play, with 'LDJIN' coming in 2nd, if memory serves. So, there you go. And I can't quibble too much as I also fervently love 'Salesman', which would have been my 2nd choice! (And Brenda Murphy has ALSO written an equally fine study of THAT American classic, as well as Tennesse Williams' haunting masterwork 'A Streetcar Named Desire', another play I treasure.)
Basically, the list of great plays goes on and on. And don't even get me STARTED on British & Irish Theatre, where, from Shakespeare to Beckett to Pinter, I'd be making lists for DAYS! But, with fine writer/scholars like Brenda Murphy out there chronicling the living histories of important theatrical productions of dramatic literature's finest and most enduring works, we theatre-lovers and theatre-history buffs are in good hands indeed!
Keep up the fine and important work, Ms. Murphy! (And how about updated editions of your 'Salesman' & 'LDJIN' books which can include even more recent productions like the much-acclaimed, multi Tony-winning Broadway 'Salesman' with Brian Dennehy and 'Long Day's Journey' with Dennehy and Vanessa Redgrave, et al?)
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