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The Edusites Guide to Eugene O’Neill’s ‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’ »
Categories: Drama, Long Day’s Journey into Night
Synopsis and Overview O’Neill was born in 1888 and died in 1953 aged 65. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936 for his cycle of ‘Sea Plays’. He wrote ‘Long Day’s Journey’ in 1940 but decreed that it should never be published or performed for a long time after his death. Thanks to the efforts of his third wife, it was published and performed in 1956 first in Sweden and then in New York to universal acclaim and established its status as the…
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‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’ - Lesson 3 »
Categories: KS5 Resources, Cambridge AS and A Level 8695 IGCE, Drama, Long Day’s Journey into Night
Lesson Three Student Handout New PDF We are looking here at the end of the play and the ways in which this finale has been prepared for earlier, so again we are looking in detail at language and structure. We want to arrive at as complete and satisfactory answer to the question in this Learning Objective: ‘How far does this come as a shocking conclusion and to what extent have we been prepared for this moment? And then, secondly: ‘which of the play’s central themes are…
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‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’ - Lesson 2 »
Categories: KS5 Resources, Cambridge AS and A Level 8695 IGCE, Drama, Long Day’s Journey into Night
Lesson Two Student Handout New PDF In this lesson we will look at an extract from Act Two Scene Two. It is on pages 67-70 from Jamie’s line You can’t talk to her now….. to Tyrone: We’re in for another night of fog, I’m afraid. The learning objective is to develop our understanding of the ways in which the relevant aspects of the play have now moved on, in particular with Mary and Jamie, and their respective relationships with Tyrone. We will then go on and…
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‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’ - Lesson 1 »
Categories: KS5 Resources, Cambridge AS and A Level 8695 IGCE, Drama, Long Day’s Journey into Night
Lesson One Student Handout New PDF In this lesson we will look at the scene from Act One on pages 19-22. Jamie: Don’t look at me. This is the Kid’s story……….. to Edmund: Shaughnessy almost wept because he hadn’t thought of that, but he said he’d include it in a letter he’s writing to Harker, along with a few other insults he’d overlooked. The learning objective is to develop our understanding of the ways in which the characters are…
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Long Day’s Journey into Night - Mock Exams »
Categories: KS5 Resources, Cambridge AS and A Level 8695 IGCE, Drama, Long Day’s Journey into Night
Remember that you are being tested on your knowledge and understanding of the whole text from which you are expected to make relevant and judicious selections of detail to frame your answer. Mock Exam Student Handout New PDF A Either Question 1 It is the repeated displays of genuine love and affection between Tyrone and Mary that are the touchstone of the play’s tragedy’. How far and in what ways do you agree? You might like to consider:- The differences between their words and…
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