The influence of Tennessee Williams
Subtitle: essays on fifteen American playwrights
By: edited and with an introduction by Philip C. Kolin.
Contributors: Kolin, Philip C.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780786434756
Subjects: Williams, Tennessee, -- 1911-1983 -- Influence; American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Description: "The author of A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof drew on personal and family drama for material. Essays examine how Williams's confessional style influenced Inge, Mamet, Kushner, Lori-Parks and others. There is a special study of African-American theater. Features interview with Albee on Williams' influence"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the panoptic Tennessee Williams / Philip C. Kolin; title: "[Our] little company of the odd and the lonely": Tennessee Williams's "personality" in the plays of William Inge / Michael Greenwald; title: Neil Simon's parodies of Tennessee Williams / Susan Koprince; title: "Inconspicuous osmosis and the plasticity of doing": the influence of Tennessee Williams on the plays of Edward Albee / David A. Crespy; title: "Cracking the shell of literalness": the itinerary of paternal consciousness in Williams's tragedy with notes on its influence on Gurney's comedy / Arvid F. Sponberg; title: "That gentleman with painfully sympathetic eyes...": rereading Lorraine Hansberry through Tennessee Williams / Nancy Cho; title: The fission of Tennessee Williams's plays into Adrienne Kennedy's / Philip C. Kolin; title: Warriors against the kitchen sink: Tennessee Williams and John Guare / Thomas Mitchell; title: Image, myth, and movement in the plays of Sam Shepard and Tennessee Williams / Annette J. Saddik; title: Sons of the South: an examination of the interstices in the works of August Wilson and Tennessee Williams / Sandra G. Shannon; title: Williams, Mamet, and the artist in extremis / Brenda Murphy; title: The symbiosis of desire and death: Beth Henley rewrites Tennessee Williams / Verna A. Foster; title: "Period of adjustment": marriage in Williams and Christopher Durang / John M. Clum; title: "All truth is a scandal": how Tennessee Williams shaped Tony Kushner's plays / Kirk Woodward; title: Twilight in Tennessee: the similar styles of Anna Deavere Smith and Tennessee Williams / Harvey Young; title: Theatre of the gut: Tennessee Williams and Suzan-Lori Parks / Harry J. Elam, Jr.; title: Swimming to Chekhovia: Edward Albee on Tennessee Williams / an interview by David A. Crespy.