Introduction / Eileen J. Herrmann and Robert M. Dowling -- "Vital Contact": O'Neill and the Working Class / Patrick Chura -- The Maritime Roots of O'Neill's Radicalism / Robert A. Richter -- 1912 / Cynthia McCown -- J.M. Synge and the Abbey Theatre's Leftist Influence on O'Neill / Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel -- "You Are the Irish Kitchen Maid, Are You Not?" Young O'Neill, an Irish Radical? / Thierry Dubost -- "A Lot of Crazy Socialists and Anarchists": O'Neill and the Artist Social Problem Play / Drew Eisenhauer -- Hugo of The iceman cometh: realism and O'Neill / Doris Alexander -- "You Needn't Be Scared of Me!": Joe Mott and the Politics of Isolation and Interdependence in The iceman cometh / Donald P. Gagnon -- Probing Legends in Bohemia: The Symbiotic Dance Between O'Neill and the Provincetown Players / Jeff Kennedy -- The Reel O'Neill in Reds / Zander Brietzke -- Saints and Hounds: Modernism's Pursuit of Dorothy Day and O'Neill / Eileen Herrmann -- "What Made You Leave the Movement?": O'Neill, Mike Gold, and the Radicalism of the Provincetown Players / David Roessel -- O'Neill and Paul Robeson: Climbing Jacob's Ladder / Joseph Dorinson -- On O'Neill's "philosophical anarchism" / Robert M. Dowling.
Summary:
"Spanning the years 1910-1930, the essays in this volume address the milieu he knew best--friends in bohemian Greenwich Village, Provincetown, on waterfronts around the globe, and in other beloved communities that comprised his early circle. Interspersed with rare period photos and illustrations, this volume contextualizes O'Neill's plays in the tumult of his historical and cultural moment"--Provided by publisher.
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