Long Day's Journey Into Night Allusions

Literature and Philosophy

• William Shakespeare (1.1.opening stage directions, 4.1.23, 4.1.59)
• Honoré de Balzac (1.1.opening stage directions)
• Émile Zola (1.1.opening stage directions)
• Stendhal (1.1.opening stage directions)
• Arthur Schopenhauer (1.1.opening stage directions, 4.1.59)
• Friedrich Nietzsche (1.1.opening stage directions, 2.2.30, 4.1.59)
• Karl Marx (1.1.opening stage directions)
• Friedrich Engels (1.1.opening stage directions)
• Peter Kropotkin (1.1.opening stage directions)
• Max Stirner (1.1.opening stage directions)
• Henrik Ibsen (1.1.opening stage directions, 4.1.59)
• George Bernard Shaw (1.1.opening stage directions)
• August Strindberg (1.1.opening stage directions)
• Algernon Charles Swinburne (1.1.opening stage directions, 4.1.59)
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1.1.opening stage directions)
• Oscar Wilde (1.1.opening stage directions, 4.1.59)
• Ernest Dowson (1.1.opening stage directions, 4.1.59)
• Rudyard Kipling (1.1.opening stage directions)
• Alexandre Dumas (1.1.opening stage directions)
• Victor Hugo (1.1.opening stage directions)
• Charles Lever (1.1.opening stage directions)
• Voltaire (4.1.59)
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (4.1.59)
• Walt Whitman (4.1.59)
• Edgar Allan Poe (4.1.59)
• David Hume, History of England (1.1.opening stage directions)
• Adolphe Thiers, History of the Consulate and Empire (1.1.opening stage directions)
• Tobias Smollett, History of England (1.1.opening stage directions)
• Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1.1.opening stage directions)
• William Shakespeare, Macbeth (4.1.62)
• William Shakespeare, Othello (1.1.39, 4.1.139)
• William Shakespeare, The Tempest (4.1.43-44)
• William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (4.1.139)
• William Shakespeare, Hamlet (4.1.224)
• William Shakespeare, Richard III (4.1.214)
• Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra (2.2.39)
• Charles Baudelaire, "Be Drunken" (4.1.48)
• Charles Baudelaire, "Epilogue" (4.1.54)
• Ernest Dowson, "Cynara" (4.1.56)
• Rudyard Kipling, "Ford O' Kabul River" (4.1.156)
• Rudyard Kipling, "Sestina of the Tramp-Royal" (4.1.84)
• Rudyard Kipling, "Mother o' Mine" (4.1.86)
• Charles Gabet, libretto to Les cloches de Corneville (4.1.156-217)
• Oscar Wilde, "The Harlot's House" (4.1.178)
• Oscar Wilde, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" (4.1.206)
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "XCVII A Superscription" (4.1.214)
• Algernon Charles Swinburne, "A Leave-taking" (4.1.234, 4.1.236, 4.1.240)

Historical Figures

• The First Duke of Wellington (4.1.25)

Pop Culture

• Edwin Booth (4.1.139)