Tennessee Williams : everyone else is an audience /

Few playwrights write as much of their lives into every work as did Tennessee Williams, and few had lives that were so obviously theatrical. Growing up amid abusive alcoholism, genteel posturing, and the incipient madness of his beloved sister, Rose, Williams produced plays in which violence explode...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hayman, Ronald, 1932-2019 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1993]
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Table of Contents:
  • Where you hang your hopes
  • Columbia and Washington
  • Student playwright
  • Exit Tom, enter Tennessee
  • You old bitch!
  • Hollywood worm
  • Desire and cemeteries
  • Roman spring
  • Terminal stretch
  • Relentless caper
  • A bit of shared luck
  • Betrayal and bereavement
  • The stoned age
  • Everyone else is an audience
  • Quarrelsome lover
  • Appendix : Analysis of recycling.