Understanding Tennessee Williams
By: by Alice Griffin
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Series: Understanding contemporary American literature; Understanding contemporary American literature
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Columbia, South Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781611170061
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Other titles: Tennessee Williams
Description: Alice Griffin offers an in-depth evaluation of the nine plays that established Tennessee Williams as America's greatest lyric dramatist. Describing him as the first playwright writing in English to combine full-blooded characters, theatricalism, and poetic dialogue, Griffin considers Williams both as a literary figure and as a stage innovator.  --from publisher description
Notes: Originally published: 1995.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-252) and index
Table of contents: title: Understanding Tennessee Williams; title: The glass menagerie; title: A streetcar named Desire; title: Summer and smoke; title: The rose tattoo; title: Camino Real; title: Cat on a hot tin roof; title: Orpheus descending; title: Sweet bird of youth; title: The night of the iguana.