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
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