Abstract
The legend of Eugene O'Neill's discovery by the Provincetown Players in the second summer of their existence is one of the more dramatic of many stories about the playwright's life. In bare outline, the story tells that O'Neill came to Provincetown in the summer of 1916 with a trunk full of plays, including Bound East for Cardiff. His arrival on the Boston ferry coincided with the moment the new theatre group needed another play to fill out its second bill of three one-act plays for the Wharf Theatre. The story has been told in its fullest form by Susan Glaspell in her biography of her husband, George Cram Cook, The Road to the Temple, written just after his death. Speaking of July 1916 she writes:
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