Tennessee Williams: A CasebookRobert F. Gross Psychology Press, 2002 - 214 pages Tennessee Williams' plays are performed around the world, and are staples of the standard American repertory. His famous portrayals of women engage feminist critics, and as America's leading gay playwright from the repressive postwar period, through Stonewall, to the growth of gay liberation, he represents an important and controversial figure for queer theorists. Gross and his contributors have included all of his plays, a chronology, introduction and bibliography. |
Contents
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 |
Tracing Lines of Flight in Summer and Smoke | 91 |
The Hungry Women of Tennessee Williamss Fiction | 107 |
Some Mallarmean Echoes in Tennessee | 121 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Tennessee Williams: A Casebook Volume 31 of Casebooks on modern dramatists Garland reference library of the humanities Volume 31 of Garland reference library of the humanities: Casebooks on modern dramatists |
| Editor | Robert F. Gross |
| Publisher | Psychology Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0815331746, 9780815331742 |
| Length | 214 pages |
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