Understanding Tennessee Williams (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)

by Alice Griffin (Author)

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  Paperback
  2011

  $31.81

  Provides an in-depth evaluation of the nine plays that established Tennessee Williams as America's greatest lyric dramatist. Describing him as the first playwright writing in English to combine full-blooded characters, theatricalism, and poetic dialogue, this considers Williams both as a literary figure and as a stage innovator.