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Lars Norén's Long Journey into Night
- Modern Drama
- University of Toronto Press
- Volume 53, Number 2, Summer 2010
- pp. 211-231
- 10.1353/mdr.0.0164
- Article
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In the 1980s, Swedish playwright Lars Norén wrote three apparently realistic autobiographical plays inspired by O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night: Night Is Mother of the Day (1982), Chaos Is Neighbour of God (1983), and Silence (1986). This article focuses mainly on Silence (1986), offering a thematic analysis of the play and discussing the influence of August Strindberg and Eugene O'Neill on its dialogue structure.