New York Post, 46, 50, 57, 140n66

New York Times, 25, 48–51, 53

Nightingale, Benedict, 52

Noël Coward Centenary Conference 1999. Birmingham University, England, 150n190

notional culture, 2

contrasted with “national” culture, 2

Ó hAodha, Micheál, 68

reveals extent of Mac Liammóir’s self-invention, 68

O’Neill, Eugene, 9–10, 19–39, 44, 84, 134n18, 135n26, 137n44, 138n53, 138n55

autobiography as inaccurate guide to plays, 9, 28, 34, 36

conventional “O’Neillian” interpretations of work flawed, 9, 29–30, 34

as international figure, 27–28, 34–35

plays, 9, 19–22, 24, 29–30, 32, 34–35

Ah, Wilderness!, 32

All God’s Chillun Got Wings, 25–26

Before Breakfast, 21

Beyond the Horizon, 21

Desire Under the Elms, 21

The Emperor Jones, 25

O’Neill, Eugene (continued)

The Hairy Ape, 21, 32, 134n18

The Iceman Cometh, 20–21

Long Day’s Journey into Night, 24–25, 29, 35

Marco Millions, 36–37, 138n53

Mourning Becomes Electra, 21–22

The Personal Equation, 21, 134n18

Recklessness, 20

Strange Interlude, 21, 36–38

The Web, 20

politics of, 22, 24, 27

rejection of bourgeois values by, 32–33

as “un-American” playwright, 20–22

Odets, Clifford, 30

Osborne, John, 112, 115, 130

Parker, Henry, Taylor (“H.T.P.”) (Boston drama and music critic), 47, 140n69

La patrie, Renan’s concept of, 15

Pinter, Harold, 44, 61, 112–113, 115, 117, 141n75

respect between Coward and, 112

Poésie populaire, Montaigne’s concept of,, 10–11, 13