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Tennessee Williams 101
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction A Legend -- I How to Get to Tennessee -- II South as the River Flows -- III At the "Tennessee" Line -- IV The Peak of Blue Mountain -- VI nto the White Woods -- VI Hot South -- VII Cotton Kingdom -- VIII Caverns Where Monsters Live -- IX Dead Planet, the Moon -- X On a Cliff at the Edge of the World -- XI Fantasia -- XII Next Stops -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix W -- Appendix X -- Appendix Y -- Appendix Z -- Works of Tennessee Williams -- Bibliography…”
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Tennessee Williams and Europe : intercultural encounters, transatlantic exchanges /
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Ackowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Part One: Tennessee Williams and Europe; En avant! Tennessee Williams between Hyperborea and the Mediterranean; Violets & Carnations Sold on every Corner: Tennessee Williams, Europe and Flowers; Lightning in a Cloud: Tennessee Williams'' Theatrical Expressionism; Sergei Eisenstein, Hollywood and Tennessee Williams'' Plastic Theatre -- The View from Here and Abroad:Tennessee Williams and 1950s Hollywood Cinema; Part Two: Tennessee Williams and Europe''s Intercultural Encounters.…”
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Law and sexuality in Tennessee Williams's America /
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Tennessee Williams - American Writers 53 : University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers No. 53.
Published 1966Table of Contents: “…Tennessee Williams; Selected Bibliography.…”
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Sexual Politics in the Work of Tennessee Williams : Desire Over Protest.
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Cover; SEXUAL POLITICS IN THE WORK OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; MANUFACTURING DESIRE; THE SELF-PROCLAIMED REVOLUTIONARY; GENRE MATTERS; TERMINOLOGY AND THEORY; CHAPTER 1: Geiger-counters of rebellion; DEMARCATING A POLITICAL SPACE; A READY-MADE POLITICAL START; POLITICAL FANTASY, POLITICAL NIGHTMARE; POSTSCRIPT APOCALYPSE; ETYMOLOGY; CHAPTER 2: There will be pity for the wild; PRIVATE/PUBLIC; GHOSTS AND THE QUEER OFFSTAGE PRESENCE; A DIFFERENT DIRECTION; POLITICS OR PORNOGRAPHY?…”
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A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams : the Glass Menagerie ; A Streetcar Named Desire ; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ; Sweet Bird of Youth.
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chronology of Tennessee Williams; The Glass Menagerie; Plot; Commentary; Notes; Questions for Further Study; A Streetcar Named Desire; Plot; Commentary; Notes; Questions for Further Study; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Plot; Commentary; Notes; Questions for Further Study; Sweet Bird of Youth; Plot; Commentary; Notes; Questions for Further Study; Further Questions on Williams's Plays; Further Reading.…”
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Mimetic Disillusion : Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and U.S. Dramatic Realism.
Published 1997Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and US. Dramatic Theory, 19351947; 2. …”
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Magical muse : millennial essays on Tennessee Williams /
Published 2002Table of Contents: “…Tennessee Williams scholarship at the turn of the century /…”
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Homo americanus : Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, and queer masculinities /
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...Louis in the life and work of Tennessee Williams /...
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Gentlemen callers : Tennessee Williams, homosexuality, and mid-twentieth century drama /
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My friend Tom : the poet-playwright Tennessee Williams /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Louis, 1935 1940 -- Battle of angels: Boston, 1940 -- The glass menagerie: New York, 1946 -- The poet, lyric and dramatic -- A streetcar named desire: New York, 1947 -- Williams and Frank Merlo: Florence, 1949 -- With Williams at a performance of America hurrah by Jean- Claude van Itallie: New York, 1966 -- Reading of Williams at Lynchburg College: Virginia, 1979 -- Clothes for a summer hotel: New York, March 26, 1980 -- Award of Medal of Freedom to Williams by President Carter: The White House, June 9, 1980 -- Death of Tennessee Williams: New York, February 24, 1983.…”
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Tragedy in the contemporary American theatre
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The vital lie : reality and illusion in modern drama
Published 1989Table of Contents: “…Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams --…”
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Captive audience : prison and captivity in contemporary theater
Published 2003Table of Contents: “…"In dark corners": masculinity and art in Tennessee Williams's Not about nightingales /…”
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Horton Foote : a literary biography
1st ed.Published 2003Table of Contents: “…4 Texas Playwright on Broadway and Tennessee Williams --…”
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A companion to twentieth-century American drama
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Paul Bowles - The New Generation : Do You Bowles?.
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…LITERARY FRIENDSHIP: THE BOWLESES AND TENNESSEE WILLIAMS /…”
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Theatre and performance design : a reader in scenography
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Hope, hopelessness-- presence, absence : scenographic innovation and the poetic spaces of Jo Mielziner, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller /…”
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The history of southern drama
Paperback edition.Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Prologue: Definitions and Preliminaries; 1 Nationalism and Native Culture in Virginia; 2 Prolific Playwriting in Charleston; 3 The Dramatist as Humorist in New Orleans; 4 Drama Goes to War; 5 The Modern Drama of Espy Williams; 6 The Leadership of Paul Green; 7 DuBose Heyward's Transmutation of Black Culture; 8 The Southern Marxism of Lillian Hellman; 9 Black Drama: Politics or Culture; Illustrations; 10 Randolph Edmonds and Civil Rights; 11 The Cultural Imagination of Tennessee Williams; 12 Past and Present Cultures in Recent Drama.…”
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Modern American drama, 1945-2000
Published 2000Table of Contents: “…The absent voice: American drama and the critic -- Eugene O'Neill's Endgame -- Tennessee Williams: the theatricalising self -- Arthur Miller: the moral imperative -- Edward Albee: journey to apocalypse -- A Broadway interlude -- Sam Shepard: imagining America -- David Mamet: all true stories -- The performing self -- Redefining the centre: politics, race, gender -- Beyond Broadway.…”
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Cold War American Literature and the Rise of Youth Culture : Children of Empire
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Introduction: "An Unprecedented Recession from Adult Life"; 2 "Don't Step on My Blue Suede Shoes": Empire, Deterrence and the Origins of Dissent in Cold War America; 3 Generational Politics, Fifties Freud and the "Fragmentation of the Oedipus"; 4 The Parent-Apparent: "De-Parentification" and the Post-Oedipal Family in Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; 5 Generation on Trial: Arthur Miller's Theater of Judgment.…”
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Personal souths : interviews from the Southern quarterly
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Cover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: Personal Souths and the Southern Quarterly; Part I: 1970s; Erskine Caldwell 1971; Eudora Welty 1978; Tennessee Williams 1979; Part II: 1980s; Harry Crews 1981; Ellen Douglas 1985; David Madden 1984; Bobbie Ann Mason 1986; Reynolds Price 1988; Part III: 1990s; Doris Betts 1996; Larry Brown 1991; Donald Harington 1998-1999; Josephine Humphreys 1992; Mary Lee Settle 1994; Elizabeth Spencer; William Styron 1995; Part IV: 2000s; Ernest J. …”
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Dark matter : invisibility in drama, theater, & performance
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…How to do things with demons : conjuring performatives in Doctor Faustus -- Quantum mechanicals : desiring Bottom in A midsummer night's dream -- Unmasking women : The rover and sexual signification on the Restoration stage -- Unbecoming acts : power, performance, and the self-consuming body in Tennessee Williams's Suddenly last summer -- Bugs in the mind : The archbishop's ceiling and Arthur Miller's prismatic drama -- Invisible wounds : rehearsing trauma on the contemporary stage.…”
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100 greatest American plays
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Behrman ; Born yesterday (1946) by Garson Kanin ; The boys in the band (1968) by Mart Crowley ; Brighton Beach memoirs (1983) by Neil Simon ; Buried child (1996) by Sam Shepard ; Bus stop (1955) by William Inge ; Cat on a hot tin roof (1955) by Tennessee Williams ; The championship season (1972) by Jason Miller ; Clybourne Park (2012) by Bruce Norris ; Come back, little Sheba (1950) by William Inge ; The contrast (1787) by Royall Tyler ; Crimes of the heart (1981) by Beth Henley ; The crucible (1953) by Arthur Miller ; Death of a salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller ; Deathtrap (1978) by Ira Levin ; The dining room (1982) by A.R. …”
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Cotton's queer relations : same-sex intimacy and the literature of the southern plantation, 1936-1968
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…; Homo-ness and fluidity in Tennessee Williams's Cat on a hot tin roof -- The southern kitchen romance. …”
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Stanislavski.
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; A note to readers; 1 Stanislavski's life and context; 2 Basic training; 3 Analysis of the play; 4 Consolidation and spontaneity; 5 Embodiment of the role; 6 Stanisiavski's influence and legacy; Appendix 1: Synopsis of and extract from Tennessee Williams' (2009) The Glass Menagerie, London: Penguin, Characters and Scene 1 pp. xv-9, lines 1-136; Appendix 2: Synopsis of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman -- Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem; Chronology; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Blue yodel
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Foreword; Blues for the Death of the Sun; Goat Man; Mississippi Pastoral; The River's Wife; The Girl with Antlers; Adventures of the Double- Headed Girl; Autobiography of Eve; Winter Burial; Coffin Bone; Devil's Rope; Baby Doll; Tennessee Williams on Art and Sex; Real Housewives; Monogamy; The Lighthouse Keeper; Tornado; Aiming a Shotgun at the Sky; Hour of the Wolf; Reverse: A Lynching; Crying Wolf; Mississippi Delta: Glass in the Field; War Mask; Thou Shalt Not; The Call of the Wild; Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory; Going to the Movies Alone.…”
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One on one : the best monologues for mature actors
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In the permanent collection : poems
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Reform, Missouri -- Blind king -- New Orleans -- Low definition -- Everyone was dead and I went on, drunk -- The general -- Weed guide -- Careless simile -- Vaudeville -- Strip mall -- Long occupation -- Twelve bar blues -- Recovery coffee -- Sibling Gothic -- The transparent fabulist -- There's something quieter than sleep -- Family plot -- Permanent collection -- Tell me about the fates -- You're in the picture -- Mortuary art -- To my heart -- The zombie -- Cavebunny -- Tennessee Williams -- Surrender -- To a friend, on living alone -- Spring -- A story about show business -- Star chart -- Assez vu -- Sleeping song -- Lucky -- Dance of death -- Likeness -- Compact mirror -- Sight gags -- Reasons for living happily -- Medallion -- The gallow ball (1950) -- Spiritual exercises.…”
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Arthur Miller's Century: Essays Celebrating the 100th Birthday of America's Great Playwright.
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Laurel & Thorn : the Athlete in American Literature.
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A gambler's instinct : the story of Broadway producer Cheryl Crawford
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Theatre history studies. 2008, Volume 28
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…List of Illustrations; Keynote Speech from the Twenty-eighth Mid-America Theatre Conference, Changing Theatrical Landscapes: Mapping New Directions in History, Pedagogy, and Practice in the Twenty-first Century; Between the Lines: Editing the Notebooks of Tennessee Williams; Research and Performance: A Roundtable on the Future of the Archive; Performance in the Archives; Performing Arts Archives: Dynamic Entities Complementing and Supporting Scholarship and Creativity; eBay, Wikipedia, and the Future of the Footnote…”
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Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater : 1930-2010
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Reinventing the South : versions of a literary region
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