4. Beginnings of American History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface and Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction: Knowers Unknown to Ourselves 1
5. 1. The Misery of the Misbegotten 11
6. 2. The Playwright as Thinker 31
7. 3. Anarchism: The Politics of the “Long Loneliness” 51
8. 4. Beginnings of American History 79
9. 5. “Lust for Possession” 95
10. 6. Possessed and Self-dispossessed 111
11. 7. “Is You a Nigger, Nigger?” 137
12. 8. “The Merest Sham”: Women and Marriage 157
13. 9. Religion and the Death of Death 183
14. 10. “The Greek Dream in Tragedy Is the Noblest Ever” 207
15. 11. Waiting for Hickey 231
16. Conclusion: The Theater as Temple 257
17. Notes 267
18. Index 283