Cover -- Half Title Page, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Prologue -- 1. Introduction: Civil Disobedience as Resistance to Tradition and Performance -- 2. Classical Origins of Character and Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro, Electra, and Orestes -- 3. Oedipus Story and the Perfect Play, or the Gospel According to Rita Dove The Darker Face of the -- 4. Racial Intent & Dramatic Form: Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings and The Emperor Jones -- 5. Aristotle's "Spectacle" and August Wilson's "Spectacle Character": Joe Turner's Come and Gone -- 6. Freedom Songs and Metaphors of Healing: Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, ... -- 7. Truth and Reconciliation: Civil Disobedience and the Cosmopolitan Citizen -- Epilogue -- References -- Index.