PROLOGUE: The Irish Luck Kid, 1916
INTRODUCTION: “Life Is a Tragedy—Hurrah!”
ACT I: The Ghosts at the Stage Door
The Treasures of Monte Cristo 
School Days of an Apostate Anarchist in the Tropics Exorcism in New York Return to Monte Cristo The (Love) Sick Apprentice It Takes a Village
ACT II: “To Be an Artist or Nothing”
Washed Ashore at Land’s End Below Washington Square “Turn Back the Universe” “The Town Is Yours” Civilization Unmasked The Theatre F(r)eud
ACT III: “The Broadway Show Shop”
Prometheus Unbound Draining Bitter Cups Note to the Ku Klux Klan “God’s Hard, Not Easy” The Novelist behind the Mask “Old Doc” at Loon Lodge The Soliloquy Is Dead! Long Live—What?
Uncharted Seas L’Aeschylus du Plessis The Prodigal Returns “The Game Isn’t Worth the Candle” Pandora’s Box The Tyranny of Time Silence’s End “There’s a Lot to Be Said for Being Dead”
POSTSCRIPT: Journey Into Light