Title: Understanding 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
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Williams, tennessee, 1914-1983, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century
People: Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)