Theatre of Tennessee Williams by Murphy, Brenda -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover-Page Half-Title Series Dedication Title Contents Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction

A Note on Texts

1 The 1930s’ Plays (1936–1940)

Williams in the Thirties A Literary Bohemia: The Magic Tower “Group consciousness”: Candles to the Sun “The Sensitive non-conformist individual”: Fugitive Kind The Lure of Escape: Not About Nightingales Sexual Confusion: Spring Storm An Escape for the Wild of Heart: Stairs to the Roof

2 Battle of Angels and Orpheus Descending (1939–1941 and 1957)

3 The Glass Menagerie (1942–1945) 4 Summer and Smoke and Eccentricities of a Nightingale (1945–1948 and 1964)

5 A Streetcar Named Desire (1945–1947) 6 The Rose Tattoo and Camino Real (1951 and 1946–1953)

Modern Fabliau: The Rose Tattoo Romantics in the Real World: Camino Real

7 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1951–1955) 8 Suddenly Last Summer and Sweet Bird of Youth (1953–1959)

“This hideous story”: Suddenly Last Summer “The enemy, time”: Sweet Bird of Youth

9 The Night of the Iguana (1940–1948 and 1959–1961) 10 The Later Plays (1961–1983)

“Stoned Age” The Artist Plays Grotesque Metaphor: The Gnädiges Fräulein “Ghost play”: Clothes for a Summer Hotel Bohemians and Misfits “The wayward and deformed”: The Mutilated Fragile Community: Small Craft Warnings Memory From Innocence to Experience: Vieux Carré “Double exposure”: Something Cloudy, Something Clear

Critical Perspectives

Conclusion Notes

Critical Perspectives

Chronology Further Reading

Works by Tennessee Williams Unpublished Manuscripts Biographies, Interviews, Documentaries, and Memoirs Bibliographies and Reference Works Reviews and Criticism of Individual Plays Other Williams Criticism Other Works Cited

Notes on Contributors Index Copyright