Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier Williams III, betre kjend som Tennessee Williams (), var ein amerikansk dramatikar. Saman med samtidige Eugene O'Neill og Arthur Miller er han rekna som ein av dei tre fremste nittenhundretalsdramatikarane i USA.

Williams er best kjend for dei filmatiserte skodespela sine En sporvogn til begjær (A Streetcar Named Desire) frå 1947 og Katt på hett blikktak (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) frå 1955. Begge skodespela finn stad i Sørstatane i USA og skildrar lidenskaplege kvinner.

Verk

Skodespel 
 Beauty Is the Word (1930)
 Cairo! Shanghai! Bombay! (1935)
 Candles to the Sun (1936)
 The Magic Tower (1936)
 Fugitive Kind (1937)
 Spring Storm (1937)
 Summer at the Lake (1937)
 The Palooka (1937)
 The Fat Man's Wife (1938)
 Ingenting om nattergalen (Not about Nightingales) (1938)
 Adam and Eve on a Ferry (1939)
 Battle of Angels (1940)
 The Parade or Approaching the End of a Summer  (1940)
 The Long Goodbye (1940)
 Auto Da Fé (1941)
 The Lady of Larkspur Lotion (1941) 
 At Liberty (1942)
 The Pink Room (1943)
 The Gentleman Callers (1944) 
 Glassmenasjeriet  (The Glass Menagerie) (1944)
 You Touched Me (1945)
 Moony's Kid Don't Cry (1946)
 Forbudt område, eller Dette hus skal rives (This Property is Condemned)  (1946)
 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (1946)
 Portrett av en madonna (Portrait of a Madonna) (1946)
 Mitt aller siste ekte gullur eller Skumringstimen (The Last of My Solid Gold Watches) (1947)
 Stairs to the Roof (1947)
 En sporvogn til begjær  (A Streetcar Named Desire) (1947)
 Flyvende sommer (Summer and Smoke) (1948) 
 I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix (1951)
 Den tatoverte rosen  (The Rose Tattoo) (1951)
 Camino Real (1953)
 Hilsen fra Bertha (Hello from Bertha) (1954)
 Lord Byron's Love Letter (1955) - libretto
 Three Players of a Summer Game (1955)
 Lord Byron's Love Letter (1955) - libretto
 Katt på hett blikktak  (Cat On a Hot Tin Roof) (1955)
 The Dark Room (1956)
 The Case of the Crushed Petunias (1956)
 Baby Doll (1956)
 Orfeus stiger ned (Orpheus Descending) (1957)
 Suddenly, Last Summer (1958) 
 A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot (1958)
 Garden District (1958)
 Something Unspoken (1958)
 Sweet Bird of Youth (1959) 
 The Purification (1959)
 And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens (1959)
 Period of Adjustment (1960)
 Iguananatten (The Night of the Iguana) (1961)
 The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963)
 The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (1964)
 Grand (1964)
 Slapstick Tragedy (1966)
 Ville engler (The Wild Angels) (1966)
 The Mutilated (1967)
 Kingdom of Earth / Seven Descents of Myrtle (1968)
 Now the Cats with Jewelled Claws (1969)
 In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (1969) 
 Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis? (1969)
 Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen (1970?)
 I Can't Imagine Tomorrow (1970)
 The Frosted Glass Coffin (1970)
 Varsel for små farty (Small Craft Warnings) (1972)
 Out Cry (1973)
 The Two-Character Play (1973)
 The Red Devil Battery Sign (1975)
 Demolition Downtown (1976)
 This Is (An Entertainment) (1976)
 Vieux Carré (1977)
 Tiger Tail (1978)
 Kirche, Kŭche und Kinder (1979)
 Creve Coeur (1979)
 Lifeboat Drill (1979)
 Drømmesøndag (A lovely sunday for Creve Coeur) (1980)
 Clothes for a Summer Hotel (1980)
 The Chalky White Substance (1980)
 This Is Peaceable Kingdom / Good Luck God (1980)
 Steps Must be Gentle (1980)
 The Notebook of Trigorin (1980)
 Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981)
 A House Not Meant to Stand (1982)
 The One Exception (1983)

Romanar 
 The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1950)
 Moise and the World of Reason (1975)
 The Bag People

Noveller 
 The Vengeance of Nitocris (1928)
 The Field of Blue Children (1939)
 Hard Candy (1959)
 Three Players of a Summer Game and Other Stories (1960)
 The Knightly Quest (1966)
 One Arm and Other Stories (1967)
 Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed (1974)
 Tent Worms (1980)
 It Happened the day the Sun Rose, and Other Stories (1981)

Dikt 
 In the Winter of Cities (1956)
 Androgyne, Mon Amour (1977)

Kjelder 

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