Eugene O'Neill's America : desire under democracy /
Diggins, John P.
Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-282) and index.
Knowers unknown to ourselves -- The misery of the misbegotten -- The playwright as thinker -- Anarchism: the politics of the "long loneliness" -- Beginnings of American history -- "Lust for possession" -- Possessed and self-dispossessed -- "Is you a nigger, nigger?" -- "The merest sham": women and marriage -- Religion and the death of death -- "The Greek dream in tragedy is the noblest ever" -- Waiting for hickey -- The theater as temple.
O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953.
O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953
Dramatists, American
Dramatists, American
Dramatists, American