Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams

Name: Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams
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ISBN: 9780521498838

ISBN-10: 052149883X

ISBN-13: 9780521498838

Edition: 1997

Authors: Matthew C. Roudanï¿½

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This collection of 14 original essays covers Williams's work from the early apprenticeship years in the 1930s to his last play before death in 1983. Leading scholars in the field cover a healthy sampling of work, including minor plays and poems.

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/11/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.94" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Dr Matthew Roudanï¿½ is Professor of English and Chair at Georgia State University, USA.



List of illustrations and acknowledgements


Notes on contributors


Chronology


Introduction




Early Williams: the making of a playwright




Entering The Glass Menagerie




A streetcar running fifty years Felicia




Camino Real: Williams's allegory about the fifties




Writing in 'A Place of Stone': Cat on a Hot Tin Roof




Before the fall - and after: Summer and Smoke and The Night of the Iguana




The 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




Seeking direction




Hollywood in crisis: Tennessee Williams and the evolution of the adult film




Tennessee Williams: the last two decades




Words on Williams: a bibliographical essay




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


Index