Eugene O'Neill's America
Desire Under Democracy
288 pages, 6 x 9
©
2007
Cloth $29.00
ISBN: 9780226148809
Published May 2007
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: Knowers Unknown to Ourselves
1. The Misery of the Misbegotten 2. The Playwright as Thinker 3. Anarchism: The Politics of the "Long Lonliness" 4. Beginnings of American History 5. "Lust for Possession" 6. Possessed and Self-dispossessed 7. "Is You a Nigger, Nigger?" 8. "The Merest Sham": Women and Marriage 9. Religion and the Death of Death 10. "The Greek Dream in Tragedy Is the Noblest Ever" 11. Waiting for Hickey
Conclusion: The Theater as Temple
Notes Index
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