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Author:

Griffin, Alice, 1924-

Title:

Understanding Tennessee Williams / by Alice Griffin.

Edition:

Pbk. ed.

Publisher:

University of South Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2011, c1995

Description:

xv, 266 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Williams, Tennessee,--1911-1983--Criticism and interpretation.

Notes:

Originally published: 1995. Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-252) and index

Contents:

Understanding Tennessee Williams -- The glass menagerie -- A streetcar named Desire -- Summer and smoke -- The rose tattoo -- Camino Real -- Cat on a hot tin roof -- Orpheus descending -- Sweet bird of youth -- The night of the iguana.

Summary:

Alice Griffin offers an in-depth evaluation of the nine plays that established Tennessee Williams as America's greatest lyric dramatist. Describing him as the first playwright writing in English to combine full-blooded characters, theatricalism, and poetic dialogue, Griffin considers Williams both as a literary figure and as a stage innovator. --from publisher description

Series:

Understanding contemporary American literature

ISBN:

9781611170061
1611170060

OCLC:

(OCoLC)704895922

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)