Tennessee Williams: A CasebookRobert F. Gross 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
Tracing Lines of Flight in Summer and Smoke | 1 |
Stop Im a Family Man Ive Got a Daughter A Little | 13 |
Bourgeois Tragedy Female | 33 |
A Streetcar Named Desire and Camino Real | 51 |
The Politics of Sexual Ambiguity in Sweet Bird of Youth | 79 |
The Hungry Women of Tennessee Williamss Fiction | 107 |
Some Mallarmean Echoes in Tennessee | 121 |
Vieux Carré and Something Cloudy | 139 |
Theatricalist Discourses | 153 |
The Notebook of Trigorin and The Seagull | 173 |
Selected Bibliography | 193 |
Contributors | 205 |
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