Preface

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction: Rampant Flaccidity
or Notional Culture

1

Chapter 1: Radicalizing the Discourse
of American Drama:
Eugene O’Neill, The Greatest
Un-American Playwright

19

Chapter 2: From First-Nighter to Essayist:
The [Dis]/Establishment of/and
Drama Critic John Mason Brown

41

Chapter 3: Green, “Quare” Nation:
Michaél Mac Liammóir’s Need
to Apply Irishness

65

Chapter 4: Cosmopolitan Nationalist:
Alexander Moissi from the
Hofburgtheater to “People’s Artist
of the Socialist People’s Republic
of Albania”

83