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Introduction | p. xi |
Essays | |
"Amor Perdido" or How It Feels to Become a Professional Playwright | p. 3 |
Te Morituri Salutamus or An Author's Address to a First Night Audience | p. 8 |
Preface to My Poems | p. 11 |
The History of a Play (With Parentheses) | p. 15 |
Notes to the Reader | p. 25 |
The Author Tells Why it is Called The Glass Menagerie | p. 27 |
A Playwright's Statement on Dallas's Theatre' 45 Plans | p. 29 |
The Catastrophe of Success | p. 32 |
Chicago Arrival | p. 37 |
Questions Without Answers | p. 40 |
"Something Wild . . ." | p. 43 |
Carson McCullers's Reflections in a Golden Eye | p. 48 |
A Writer's Quest for a Parnassus | p. 54 |
The Timeless World of a Play | p. 59 |
The Meaning of The Rose Tattoo | p. 63 |
Facts About Me | p. 65 |
Foreword to Camino Real | p. 68 |
Afterword to Camino Real | p. 71 |
Person-To-Person | p. 73 |
Critic Says "Evasion," Writer Says "Mystery" | p. 76 |
The Past, the Present, and the Perhaps | p. 79 |
The World I Live In | p. 83 |
Author and Director: A Delicate Situation | p. 86 |
If The Writing Is Honest | p. 90 |
Foreword to Sweet Bird of Youth | p. 93 |
The Man In the Overstuffed Chair | p. 97 |
Reflections on a Revival of a Controversial Fantasy | p. 107 |
Tennessee Williams Presents His POV | p. 109 |
Prelude to a Comedy | p. 114 |
Five Fiery Ladies | p. 117 |
Carson McCullers | p. 121 |
A Summary of Discovery | p. 123 |
The Agent as Catalyst | p. 130 |
T. Williams's View of T. Bankhead | p. 134 |
Grand | p. 139 |
Slapstick Tragedy: A Preface | p. 147 |
The Wolf and I | p. 149 |
Happiness Is Relevant | p. 153 |
"Tennessee, Never Talk to an Actress" | p. 156 |
We Are Dissenters Now | p. 160 |
Too Personal? | p. 165 |
Homage to Key West | p. 168 |
Let me Hang It All Out | p. 171 |
Where My Head is Now and Other Questions | p. 175 |
The Blessings and Mixed Blessings of Workshop Productions | p. 177 |
I Have Rewritten a Play For Artistic Purity | p. 181 |
I Am Widely Regarded as the Ghost Of a Writer | p. 184 |
The Misunderstandings and Fears of an Artist's Revolt | p. 187 |
Miscellany: Reviews, Introductions, Appreciations, & Program Notes | |
A Reply to Mr. Nathan | p. 193 |
An Appreciation: The Creator of The Glass Menagerie Pays Tribute to Laurette Taylor | p. 195 |
An Appreciation of Hans Hofmann | p. 197 |
An Allegory of Man and His Sahara, a Review | p. 198 |
A Movie by Cocteau . . . , a review | p. 200 |
The Human Psyche-Alone, a review | p. 202 |
Notes on the Filming of The Rose Tattoo | p. 204 |
A Tribute from Tennessee Williams to "Heroic Tallulah Bankhead" | p. 207 |
On Meeting a Young Writer | p. 208 |
Concerning Eugene O'Neill | p. 210 |
Tennessee Williams Talks about His Play In The Bar of a Tokyo Hotel | p. 211 |
Notes for The Two Character Play | p. 211 |
To William Inge: An Homage | p. 213 |
W. H. Auden: A Few Reminiscences | p. 216 |
Foreword to Jane Bowles's Feminine Wiles | p. 217 |
Program Note for The Red Devil Battery Sign | p. 218 |
Foreword to Dakin Williams's the Bar Bizarre | p. 219 |
Homage to J. | p. 219 |
Juvenilia and College Papers | |
Can a Good Wife Be a Good Sport? | p. 223 |
High School Travel Articles | p. 223 |
A Day at the Olympics | p. 224 |
The Tomb of the Capuchins | p. 225 |
A Flight over London | p. 226 |
A Night in Venice | p. 227 |
A Trip to Monte Carlo | p. 229 |
The Ruins of Pompeii | p. 230 |
A Tour of the Battle-fields of France | p. 231 |
A Festival Night in Paris | p. 232 |
The Almalfi Drive and Sorrento | p. 234 |
The First Day Out College Papers | p. 235 |
Candida | p. 236 |
Review of Two Plays by John M. Synge | p. 238 |
Some Representative Plays of O'Neill And a Discussion of his Art | p. 240 |
Is Fives | p. 243 |
Birth of an Art (Anton Chekhov and the New Theatre) | p. 246 |
Comments on the Nature of Artists with a few Specific References to the Case of Edgar Allan Poe | p. 254 |
Afterword | p. 259 |
Acknowledgments | p. 269 |
Abbreviations | p. 270 |
Notes | p. 271 |
A Complete List of Tennessee Williams's Non-fiction Prose Writings | p. 293 |
Index | p. 303 |
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