The 1930s' Plays (1936-1940) -- Battle of Angels and Orpheus Descending (1939-1941 and 1957) -- The Glass Menagerie (1942-1945) -- Summer and Smoke and Eccentricities of a Nightingale (1945-1948 and 1964) -- A Streetcar Named Desire (1945-1947) -- The Rose Tattoo and Camino Real (1951 and 1946-1953) -- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1951-1955) -- Suddenly Last Summer and Sweet Bird of Youth (1953-1959) -- The Night of the Iguana (1940-1948 and 1959-1961) -- The Later Plays (1961-1983). -- Critical Perspectives. All in the timing: the meanings of Streetcar in 1947 and 1951 / Bruce McConachie -- A broken romance: Tennessee Williams and America's mid-century theatre culture / John S. Bak -- "A Vast Traumatic Eye" : culture absorbed and refigured in Tennessee Williams's transitional plays / Felicia Hardison Londre -- "There's something not natural here" : grotesque ambiguities in Tennessee Williams's Kingdom of Earth, A Cavalier for Milady, and A House Not Meant to Stand / Annette J. Saddik.
Summary:
This work provides an analysis of Willams's dramatic work. With the centennial of his birth celebrated amid a flurry of conferences devoted to his work in 2011, and his plays a central part of any literature and drama curriculum and uibiquitous in theatre repertoires, he remains a giant of twentieth century literature and drama. In this major study of his work the author examines his life and career and provides an analysis of more than a score of his key plays, including in-depth studies of major works such as A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and others. She traces the artist figure who features in many of Williams's plays to broaden the discussion beyond the normal reference points. -- From publisher's website.
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