Tennessee Williams: A Casebook

by Gross,Robert; Gross,Robert

• ISBN13: 9780815331742
• ISBN10: 0815331746
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Tennessee Williams's plays are performed around the world, and are staples of American repertory. His portrayals of women have challenged feminist critics, and as America's leading gay playwright from the postwar period through the growth of gay liberation, he represents an important and controversial figure for queer theorists. This comprehensive collection reflects the current critical debates regarding Williams, with essays by eminent scholars covering all aspects of Williams's work, including his complex relationship with American realism. Includes chapters on all of Williams's plays, an substantial introduction, a chronology, and bibliography.

Author Biography

Rober F. Gross is Director of Theatre at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Note	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Chronology	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
We All Have to Paint Our Nudes: The Iconography of Sexual Longing in Spring Storm	p. 5
"Stop! I'm a Family Man! I've Got a Daughter! A Little--Girrrrl!" Prefiguring the Patriarch in Not About Nightingales	p. 13
"That Quiet Little Play": Bourgeois Tragedy, Female Impersonation, and a Portrait of the Artist in The Glass Menagerie	p. 33
Two Transient Plays: A Streetcar Named Desire and Camino Real	p. 51
On The Rose Tattoo	p. 63
The Politics of Sexual Ambiguity in Sweet Bird of Youth	p. 79
Tracing Lines of Flight in Summer and Smoke and The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore	p. 91
The Hungry Women of Tennessee Williams's Fiction	p. 107
"Le Jeu Supreme": Some Mallarmean Echoes in Tennessee Williams's Out Cry	p. 121
Memories and Muses: Vieux Carre and Something Cloudy, Something Clear	p. 139
Collapsing Resurrection Mythologies: Theatricalist Discourses of Fire and Ash in Clothes for a Summer Hotel	p. 153
"Nothing Unspoken": The Notebook of Trigorin and The Seagull	p. 173
Selected Bibliography	p. 193
Contributors	p. 205
Index	p. 209
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