Eileen J. Herrmann is an adjunct associate professor in Oakland, California. Robert M. Dowling is an associate professor of English at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Connecticut.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction (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 delete(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 delete (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 J. 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)Appendix: Selected Chronology 1888–1928About the ContributorsIndex

“a valuable and useful book...should be in the library of every O’Neill scholar”—Eugene O’Neill Review.

Eileen J. Herrmann is an adjunct associate professor in Oakland, California. Robert M. Dowling is an associate professor of English at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Connecticut.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction (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 delete(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 delete (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 J. 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)Appendix: Selected Chronology 1888–1928About the ContributorsIndex

“a valuable and useful book...should be in the library of every O’Neill scholar”—Eugene O’Neill Review.

Eileen J. Herrmann is an adjunct associate professor in Oakland, California. Robert M. Dowling is an associate professor of English at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Connecticut.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction (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 delete(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 delete (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 J. 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)Appendix: Selected Chronology 1888–1928About the ContributorsIndex

“a valuable and useful book...should be in the library of every O’Neill scholar”—Eugene O’Neill Review.