Clothes for a Summer Hotel

Clothes for a Summer Hotel
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1983
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780811208710

This late play by Tennessee Williams explores the troubled relationship between F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.

New York Magazine

New York Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 98
Release: 1980-04-07
Genre:
ISBN:

New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams
Author: Robert Gross
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2014-09-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135673616

Tennessee Williams' plays are performed around the world, and are staples of the standard American repertory. His famous portrayals of women engage feminist critics, and as America's leading gay playwright from the repressive postwar period, through Stonewall, to the growth of gay liberation, he represents an important and controversial figure for queer theorists. Gross and his contributors have included all of his plays, a chronology, introduction and bibliography.

The Politics of Reputation

The Politics of Reputation
Author: Annette J. Saddik
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1999
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780838637722

Author Annette J. Saddik researches Tennessee Williams' much-neglected later work (from 1961 to 1983), and argues that it deserves a central place in American experimental drama. Offering a new reading of Williams' career, she challenges the conventional wisdom that his later work represents a failure of his creative powers.

Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams

Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams
Author: Greta Heintzelman
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Dramatists, American
ISBN: 1438108567

One of the greatest American dramatists of the 20th century, Tennessee Williams is known for his sensitive characterizations, poetic yet realistic writing, ironic humor, and depiction, of harsh realties in human relationship. His work is frequently included in high school and college curricula, and his plays are continually produced. Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams includes entries on all of Williams's major and minor works, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie, a novel, a collection of short stories, two poetry collections, and personal essays; places and events related to his works; major figures in his life; his literary influences; and issues in Williams scholarship and criticism. Appendixes include a complete list of Williams's works; a list of research libraries with significant Williams holdings; and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources.

Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess

Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess
Author: Annette J. Saddik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2015-01-26
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1107076684

This book explores Williams' late plays in terms of a 'theatre of excess', which seeks liberation through exaggeration, chaos, ambiguity, and laughter.

The Metatheater of Tennessee Williams

The Metatheater of Tennessee Williams
Author: Laura Michiels
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2021-06-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476666466

Tennessee Williams' characters set the stage for their own dramas. Blanche DuBois (A Streetcar Named Desire), arrived at her sister's apartment with an entire trunk of costumes and props. Amanda Wingfield (The Glass Menagerie) directed her son on how to eat and tries to make her daughter act like a Southern Belle. This book argues for the persistence of one metatheatrical strategy running throughout Williams' entire oeuvre: each play stages the process through which it came into being--and this process consists of a variation on repetition combined with transformation. Each chapter takes a detailed reading of one play and its variation on repetition and transformation. Specific topics include reproduction in Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), mediation in Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981), and how the playwright frequently recycled previous works of art, including his own.

Notebooks

Notebooks
Author: Margaret Rose Thornton
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 868
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780300116823

Meticulously edited and annotated, Tennessee Williams's notebooks follow his growth as a writer from his undergraduate days to the publication and production of his most famous plays, from his drug addiction and drunkenness to the heights of his literary accomplishments.

Dramatizing Dementia

Dramatizing Dementia
Author: Jacqueline O'Connor
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1997
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780879727420

Rather than attempting to psychoanalyze the characters, the author uses the social situations within the dramas themselves to define the terms of her argument. Her analysis of the plays is organized according to the recurring themes of confinement, women, language, and artists, and draws upon a variety of psychological, literary, and biographical sources to examine Williams's preoccupation with the mentally ill and society's treatment of them. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams
Author: J. Bak
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2013-02-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137308478

This Literary Life draws extensively from the playwright's correspondences, notebooks, and archival papers to offer an original angle to the discussion of Williams's life and work, and the times and circumstances that helped produce it.