Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-167) and index.
Contents:
Flying the Jolly Roger : images of escape and selfhood in Tennessee Williams's The glass menagerie / Lori Leathers Single. Tennessee Williams, theatre poet in prose / Frank Durham -- The glass menagerie : "It's no tragedy, Freckles" / Thomas E. Scheye -- The composition of The glass menagerie : an argument for complexity / Brian Parker -- 'The glass menagerie' (1944) / Roger Boxill -- "More than just a little Chekhovian" : The sea gull as a source for the characters in The glass menagerie / Drewey Wayne Gunn -- Entering The glass menagerie / C.W.E. Bigsby -- "Where memory begins" : new Texas light on The glass menagerie / Gilbert Debusscher -- The Blue Rose of St. Louis : Laura, romanticism, and The glass menagerie / Bert Cardullo -- Tennessee Williams's Tom Wingfield and Georg Kaiser's cashier : a contextual comparison / William Fordyce -- Flying the Jolly Roger : images of escape and selfhood in Tennessee Williams's The glass menagerie / Lori Leathers Single.
Summary:
Presents the best current criticism on The glass menagerie.
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