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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