Tennessee Williams a collection of critical essay
Edited by Stephen S. Stanton
- Englewood Ciffs, NJ Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1977
- 194 p.
Includes bibliography
Introduction / Stephen S. Stanton -- Plays -- Tennessee Williams' approach to tragedy / Robert Bechtold Heilman -- The glass menagerie revisited: catastrophe without violence / Roger B. Stein -- The garrulous grotesques of Tennessee Williams / Ruby Cohn -- Tennessee Williams' achievement in the sixties / Gerald Weales -- The new note in Tennessee Williams / Harold Clurman -- The dialogue of incompletion: language in Tennessee Williams' later plays / Thomas P. Adler -- Themes -- The anti-hero in the plays of Tennessee Williams / Esther Merle Jackson -- Tennessee Williams and the predicament of women / Louise Blackwell -- Tennessee Williams' fugitive kind / Donald P. Costello -- Tennessee Williams: a desperate morality / Arthur Ganz -- The search for God in the plays of Tennessee Williams / Thomas P. Adler -- Tennessee Williams' Lives of the saints: a playwright's obliquity / Gilbert Debusscher -- The distorted mirror: Tennessee Williams' self-portraits / Nancy M. Tischler -- Tennessee Williams: "What's left?" / Catharine Hughes -- Work in progress -- The red devil battery sign: a first impression / Sy M. Kahn -- The countess: center of This is (an entertainment) / Judith Hersh Clark.
A collection of critical essays analyzing his work, sensitivity to dialogue, his comic talent and theatrical flair.
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Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983
Criticism and interpretation--Addres ses, essays, lectures. American Drama--Psychological aspects. Southern States