The Cambridge companion to Tennessee Williams / edited by Matthew C. Roudané.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roudané, Matthew Charles, 1953- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Williams, Tennessee.

Southern States--In literature.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 277 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a collection of thirteen original essays from a team of leading scholars in the field. In this wide-ranging volume, the contributors cover a healthy sampling of Williams's works, from the early apprenticeship years in the 1930s through to his last play before his death in 1983, Something Cloudy, Something Clear. In addition to essays on such major plays as The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, among others, the contributors also consider selected minor plays, short stories, poems, and biographical concerns. The Companion also features a chapter on selected key productions as well as a bibliographic essay surveying the major critical statements on Williams.

Contents:

Introduction / Matthew C. Roudané

Early Williams: the making of a playwright / Allean Hale

Entering The Glass Menagerie / C.W.E. Bigsby

Streetcar running fifty years / Felicia Hardison Londre

Camino Real: Williams's allegory about the fifties / Jan Balakian

Writing in "a place of stone": Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / Albert J. Devlin

Before the fall

and after: Summer and Smoke and The Night of the Iguana / Thomas P. Adler

Sacrificial stud and the fugitive female in Suddenly Last Summer, Orpheus Descending, and Sweet Bird of Youth / John M. Clum.

Romantic textures in Tennessee Williams's plays and short stories / Nancy M. Tischler

Creative rewriting: European and American influences on the dramas of Tennessee Williams / Gilbert Debusscher

Seeking direction / Brenda Murphy

Hollywood in crisis: Tennessee Williams and the evolution of the adult film / R. Barton Palmer

Tennessee Williams: the last two decades / Ruby Cohn

Words on Williams: a bibliographic essay / Jacqueline O'Connor

Strangest Kind of Romance: Tennessee Williams and his Broadway critics / Jacqueline O'Connor.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

ISBN:

1-107-48044-2

1-107-48478-2

1-139-00018-7