Critical essays on Tennessee Williams /
Martin, Robert A.
New York : G.K. Hall ; London : Prentice Hall International,
c1997.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reviews.  The glass menagerie (1945) -- A streetcar named Desire (1947) -- Summer and smoke (1948) -- The rose tatoo (1951) -- Camino real (1953) -- Cat on a hot tin roof (1955) -- Sweet bird of youth (1959) -- The night of the iguana (1961) -- Clothes for a summer hotel (1980) -- Views.  The circle closed : a psychological reading of The glass menagerie and The two character play / R.B. Parker -- Realism and theatricalism in A streetcar named Desire / Mary Ann Corrigan -- The grotesque children of The rose tattoo / Leland Starns -- Williams and the Broadway audience : the revision of Camino real / Brenda Murphy -- Blanche DuBois and Maggie the Cat : illusion and reality in Tennessee Williams / Dianne Cafagna -- The rebirth of Orpheus descending / Kimball King -- Monologues and mirrors in Sweet bird of youth / Thomas P. Adler -- Period of adjustment : high comedy over a cavern / Gerald Weales -- Apparent Sophoclean echoes in Tennessee Williams's Night of the iguana / Helen E. Moritz -- Sexual imagery in Tennessee Williams' Kingdom of earth / Foster Hirsch -- When ghosts supplant memories : Tennessee Williams' Clothes for a summer hotel / Thomas P. Adler --
Overviews.  Tennessee Williams : the idea of a "plastic form" / Esther M. Jackson -- The three halves of Tennessee Williams's world / Jordan Y. Miller -- Memory, dream, and myth in the plays of Tennessee Williams / Mary Ann Corrigan -- Tennessee Williams : dramatist of frustration / John Gassner -- Tennessee Williams and the predicament of women / Louise Blackwell -- Accepting reality : survivors and dreamers in Tennessee Williams / Walter J. Meserve -- Tennessee Williams' gallery of feminine characters / Durant Da Ponte -- The search for hope in the plays of Tennessee Williams / Delma Eugene Presley -- Late Tennessee Williams / Ruby Cohn -- Death as metaphor / Nancy M. Tischler.
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983