Tennessee Williams : a casebook / edited by Robert F. Gross.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gross, Robert F.

Series:

Casebooks on modern dramatists ; v. 31.

Casebooks on modern dramatists ; v. 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Williams, Tennessee.

Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xvi, 214 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2002.

Summary:

Despite the reams of critical writing about Tennessee Williams, our understanding of this remarkable playwright remains fragmentary. While his plays have become classics of the American repertory, the availability of up-to-date critical anthologies has lagged behind. Now, for the first time, Robert F. Gross has assembled a collection of essays that cover the broad sweep of Williams's career -- from his complex relationship with American realism to his role in the emerging gay liberation movement and feminist theater. This volume includes twelve groundbreaking essays by leading scholars who offer fresh analyses of the famous plays as well as illuminating discussions of the lesserknown and recently published works. Readers are invited to explore with new insight the vast and various oeuvre of one of the most celebrated dramatists of our time.

Contents:

We All Have to Paint Our Nudes: The Iconography of Sexual Longing in Spring Storm / Lauren Friesen 5

"Stop! I'm a Family Man! I've Got a Daughter! A Little

Girrrrl!" Prefiguring the Patriarch in Not About Nightingales / Thomas Gregory Carpenter 13

"That Quiet Little Play": Bourgeois Tragedy, Female Impersonation, and a Portrait of the Artist in The Glass Menagerie / Stephanie B. Hammer 33

Two Transient Plays: A Streetcar Named Desire and Camino Real / Frank Bradley 51

On The Rose Tattoo / John L. Gronbeck-Tedesco 63

The Politics of Sexual Ambiguity in Sweet Bird of Youth / Ann Wilson 79

Tracing Lines of Flight in Summer and Smoke and The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore / Robert F. Gross 91

The Hungry Women of Tennessee Williams's Fiction / Michael R. Schiavi 107

"Le Jeu Supreme": Some Mallarmean Echoes in Tennessee Williams's Out Cry / Kalliopi Nikolopoulou 121

Memories and Muses: Vieux Carre and Something Cloudy, Something Clear / Bruce J. Mann 139

Collapsing Resurrection Mythologies: Theatricalist Discourses of Fire and Ash in Clothes for a Summer Hotel / Linda Dorff 153

"Nothing Unspoken": The Notebook of Trigorin and The Seagull / Rhonda Blair 173.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0815331746

OCLC:

45804816