O’Neill’s onstage journey into autobiography

Published April 8, 2012 4:00am ET



Many of Eugene O’Neill’s characters cemented his position as America’s first serious dramatist, a writer who could fuse psychological realism with poetry. But none did it better than Mary Tyrone, the famous matriarch of O’Neill’s masterpiece “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.”

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