Plays
By: Tennessee Williams.
Contributors: Gussow, Mel.; Holdich, Kenneth.
Series: The Library of America -- 119-120
Publisher: Library of America; Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: American drama -- 20th century
Work titles: Plays.
Description: Contains selections of Williams' most influential works including "The Glass Menagerie," "A Streetcar Named Desire," and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
Notes: Selection and notes by Mel Gussow and Kenneth Holdich.
Table of contents: title: [v. 1] 1937-1955: Spring storm. Not about nightingales. Battle of angels. I rise in flame, cried the phoenix. From 27 wagons full of cotton (1945) .... The glass menagerie. A streetcar named Desire. Summer and smoke. The rose tattoo. Camino Real. From 27 Wagons full of cotton (1953) .... Cat on a hot tin roof; title: [v. 2] 1957-1980: Orpheus descending. Suddenly last summer. Sweet bird of youth. Period of adjustment. The night of the iguana. The eccentricities of a nightingale. The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. The mutilated. Kingdom of earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. Out cry. Vieux Carré. A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur.