ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |19 pages
“Stop! I'm a Family Man! I've Got a Daughter! A Little—Girrrrl!”
Prefiguring the Patriarch in Not About Nightingales
chapter |18 pages
“That Quiet Little Play”
Bourgeois Tragedy, Female Impersonation, and a Portrait of the Artist in The Glass Menagerie
chapter |20 pages
Collapsing Resurrection Mythologies
Theatricalist Discourses of Fire and Ash in Clothes for a Summer Hotel