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Introduction/Second Manifesto: The American Theater of Cruelty ACT 1/Warning Signs 1. Puritanism and the Early American Theaters of Cruelty 29 2. The Resistance to Theater in the Conquest of America 53 ACT 2/Confession 3. Ripping Good Time: History, Blindsight, and Amnesic Thought 79 4. Excursis: The Thought of an American Theater 109 ACT 3/Convulsions 5. What Child Is This? O'Neill, Albee, Shepard, and the Body of the Repressed 131 6. Splitting the Difference: Performance and Its Double in American Culture 157 ACT 4/Abdication 7. Nothing Doing 185 8. Epilogue 201