The Undiscovered Country
The Later Plays of Tennessee Williams
Will be published approx. on 6. November 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
223 pages
978-0-8204-5130-5 (ISBN)
Description
Williams' later canon - post Night of the Iguana - has not received the intensive critical attention his earlier works have. The fifteen original essays in this book, written by leading authorities on Tennessee Williams, examine the energy and variety of Williams' late work in light of critical theory and performance objectives to reveal a powerful and rarely gifted experimental artist at work. Rather than seeing the works of the 1960s-1980s as a falling off of Williams' talent, the essays here demonstrate and argue that they are vital to the Williams canon and to American (and world) theatre alike.
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Person
The Editor: Philip C. Kolin, Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi, is the founding co-editor of Studies in American Drama, 1945-Present and an authority on the plays of Tennessee Williams. He has four other books on Williams, including a cultural and theatre history of A Streetcar Named Desire, and more than fifteen books on Shakespeare, David Rabe, Edward Albee, and technical writing. Kolin is also the general editor for a Shakespeare criticism series.
Content
Philip C. Kolin: Introduction - Annette J. Saddik: «The Inexpressible Regret of All Her Regrets»: Tennessee Williams's Later Plays as Artaudian Theatre of Cruelty - Michael Paller: The Day on Which a Woman Dies: The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore and No Theatre - Allean Hale: The Gnädiges Fräulein: Tennessee Williams's Clown Show - Una Chaudhuri: «AWK!»: Extremity, Animality, and the Aesthetic of Awkwardness in Tennessee Williams's The Gnädiges Fräulein - Gene D. Phillips, S.J.: Tennessee Williams's Forgotten Film: The Last of the Mobile Hot-Shots as a Screen Version of The Seven Descents of Myrtle - Terri Smith Ruckel: Ut Pictura Poesis, Ut Poesis Pictura: The Painterly Texture of Tennessee Williams's In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel - Felicia Hardison Londré: The Two-Character Out Cry and Break Out - Philip C. Kolin: «having lost the ability to say: 'My God!'»: The Theology of Tennessee Williams's Small Craft Warnings - Robert F. Gross: The Gnostic Politics of The Red Devil Battery Sign - Robert Bray: Vieux Carré: Transferring «A Story of Mood» - Verna Foster: Waiting for Buddy, or Just Going on in A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur - George W. Crandell: «I Can't Imagine Tomorrow»: Tennessee Williams and the Representations of Time in Clothes for a Summer Hotel - Norma Jenckes: «Let's Face the Music and Dance»: Resurgent Romanticism in Tennessee Williams's Camino Real and Clothes for a Summer Hotel - James Fisher: «In My Leftover Heart»: Confessional Autobiography in Tennessee Williams's Something Cloudy, Something Clear - Thomas Keith: A House Not Meant to Stand - Tennessee's Haunted Last Laugh.