Beautiful (and fairly depressing) four-act play by
Eugene O'Neill about the
semi-fictional Tyrone family. It centers on the events of the day both that the youngest Tyrone,
Edmund, is diagnosed with
consumption and that
Mary Tyrone returns from the
sanatorium for treatment of her
morphine addiction. As the play moves towards its particularly gripping climax, things get more and more stressful on the family, eventually leading members to tear mercilessly at each other's faults, revive ancient complaints, and, above all, fall back into old, time-worn patterns.
This play was apparently so personal that
O'Neill postponed its production until after his own death. An intensely moving work.