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From: New YorkerSweet Bird of Youth (1959), currently being revived at the Royal National Theatre, in London, picks up Williams' story at the panicky moment of the hardening of his spiritual arteries. In Sweet Bird of Youth, the most...
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[(essay date summer 1964) In the following essay, Peden elucidates the defining characteristics of Williams's short fiction.] The short stories in Tennessee Williams (1914-), collected in One Arm (1948) and Hard Candy...
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From: Tennessee Williams: A TributeWhen The Rose Tatto made its Broadway appearance on 3 February 1951, Tennessee Williams did not have a reputation as a comic writer. Quite to the contrary, his two hits, The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire,...
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From: Understanding Tenessee Williams, Matthew J. Bruccoli, General EditorSweet Bird of Youth is Williams's most eloquent expression of his recurrent theme that time is "the enemy." In the face of time's relentless advance, transient youth takes flight, deserting those who trusted it. In one...
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From: Southern Quarterly[(essay date fall 1999) In the following essay, Kolin asserts that the story "Interval" "bears scrutiny as a disclosure of Williams's view of art, sex, and the imagination, all fused in America's quintessential worlds of...
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From: Drama Critique[(essay date November 1961) In the following essay, Grande argues that humanity's metaphysical alienation is a central theme of Williams's fiction.] Simultaneous with the New York Times advertisements for Tennessee...
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From: Tennessee Williams: A TributeTennessee Williams is a good storyteller, as theater audiences have long known.... Unlike most playwrights who try their hands at different forms, Williams is a remarkably strong prose writer—his fiction perhaps even...
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From: RenascenceTennessee Williams' writing reveals a striking preoccupation with the problem of time. Like other modern dramatists, he has juxtaposed past and present, created worlds of fantasy, and employed mythical substructures in...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Shortly before Vieux Carre opened on Broadway in 1977, Tennessee Williams wrote an article for the New York Times which began, "Of course no one is more acutely aware than I that I am widely regarded as the ghost of a...
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From:Tamkang Review (Vol. 46, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis paper explores the Chinese cultural influence on the character of Fred Faulk in Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana via a comparative approach. Departing from the traditional Christian interpretations of...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 32, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe nature essay, the treatment of nature and landscape in fiction, and the role of nature in poetry, have all been the subject of recent studies, as critics turn their attention to this important--yet until now...