Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-200) and index.
Contents:
"Fifty percent illusion": the mask of the southern belle in Tennessee Williams's A streetcar named Desire, The glass menagerie, and "portrait of a madonna" / George Hovis. The sacrificial stud and the fugitive female in Suddenly last summer, Orpheus descending, and Sweet bird of youth / John M. Clum -- Romantic textures in Tennessee Williams's plays and short stories / Nancy M. Tischler -- The blue rose of St. Louis : Laura, romanticism, and The glass menagerie / Bert Cardullo -- "I prefer the 'mad' ones" : Tennessee Williams's grotesque-lyric exegetical poems / Linda Dorff -- "The transmutation of experience" : the aesthetics and themes of Tennessee Williams's nonfiction / D. Dean Shackelford -- Desire, death, and laughter : tragicomic dramaturgy in A streetcar named Desire / Verna Foster -- Critical expectations and assumptions : Williams' later reputation and the American reception of the avant-garde / Annette J. Saddik -- Two transient plays : A streetcar named Desire and Camino real / Frank Bradley -- The family of mitch : (un)suitable suitors in Tennessee Williams / Philip C. Kolin -- "Fifty percent illusion": the mask of the southern belle in Tennessee Williams's A streetcar named Desire, The glass menagerie, and "portrait of a madonna" / George Hovis.
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