Tennessee Williams

A Casebook

Robert Gross

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780815331742
• eBook ISBN: 9781135673611
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism in Drama
• Index: Literature

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.

Index

Adams, Michael, 170n

Adamson, Eve, 149n

Adler, Stella, 29n

Adler, Thomas P., 61n, 153–154, 162–163, 168n, 191n

Admirable Crichton, The (Barrie), 35

Akalaitis, JoAnne, 103

Albee, Edward, 108

Aldredge, Theoni, 168n

Alice books (Carroll), 34, 35

Alice-Sit-By-The-Fire (Barrie), 34–35, 42

American Blues (Williams), 29n

“Angel in the Alcove, The” (Williams), 107, 141–142

Apocalypse (Lawrence), 170n

Apollinaire, Guillaume, 70

“Après-Midi d’un Faune” (Mallarmé), 125

“Archaic Torso of Apollo” (Rilke), 150n

Aristotle, 136n

Artaud, Antonin, 92

Asquith, Cynthia, 170n

Auerbach, Eric, 36–37

Auto-da-Fé (Williams), 140, 141, 154, 156–157, 168n

Axel (Villiers de L’Isle Adam), 129

Baby Doll (Williams), 119n

Bacon, Francis, 92

Bankhead, Tallulah, 49, 84–85, 144, 146

Barnes, Clive, 137n

Barney, Natalie, 157

Barrie, James, 34–35, 42

Barthes, Roland, 92

Bates, Kathy, 119n

Battle of Angels (Williams), 16, 101, 140, 141. See also Orpheus Descending

Baudelaire, Charles, 130

Baudrillard, Jean, 158

Bel-Ami (Maupassant), 177

Benedict, Ruth, 72

“Big Black: A Mississippi Idyll” (Williams), 120

Bigelow, Paul, 45

Big House, The (film), 14, 17

Bigsby, C. W. E., 6, 191n

Black, Kenneth, 168

Black and Blue Tattoo, 74

Blake, William, 92, 95

Blanchot, Maurice, 127, 137n

Bloom, Harold, 150, 191n

Boas, Franz, 72

Body and Soul (film), 29n

Bovey, Shelley, 119

Bradbury, Malcolm, 76

Brando, Marlon, 29n

Brecht, Bertolt, 40

Brooks, Paul, 150n

Brown, Norman O., 92

Brustein, Robert, 14

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• General Editor’s Note
• Acknowledgments
• Chronology
• Introduction
• We All Have to Paint Our Nudes: The Iconography of Sexual Longing in Spring Storm
• “Stop! I’m a Family Man! I’ve Got a Daughter! A Little —Girrrrl!” Prefiguring the Patriarch in Not About Nightingales
• “That Quiet Little Play”: Bourgeois Tragedy, Female Impersonation, and a Portrait of the Artist in The Glass Menagerie
• Two Transient Plays: A Streetcar Named Desire and Camino Real
• On The Rose Tattoo
• The Politics of Sexual Ambiguity in Sweet Bird of Youth
• Tracing Lines of Flight in Summer and Smoke and The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore
• The Hungry Women of Tennessee Williams’s Fiction
• “Le Jeu Suprême”: Some Mallarmean Echoes in Tennessee Williams’s Out Cry
• Memories and Muses: Vieux Carré and Something Cloudy, Something Clear
• Collapsing Resurrection Mythologies: Theatricalist Discourses of Fire and Ash in Clothes for a Summer Hotel
• “Nothing Unspoken”: The Notebook of Trigorin and The Seagull
• Selected Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index