Tennessee Williams Annual Review 2006
The Pretty Trap, a revealing early one-act version of Williams’s classic play The Glass Menagerie, appears here in print for the first time. Featuring an array of the field’s most revered scholars, essays inside look at Williams’s work in the context of everything from Elvis Presley to the Scopes “Monkey Trial” and detail the playwright’s vast reading list.
Details
- Published 2006 by HNOC
- softcover • 6" × 9" • 192 pp.
- 9 b&w images
- ISSN 1097-6035
Contents
Foreword to The Pretty Trap
Brian Parker
Previously Unpublished: The Pretty Trap
Tennessee Williams (available only in print edition)
The Midwestern Plays of Tennessee Williams
David Radavich
Inventing Tennessee Williams: The Theatre Guild and His First Professional Production
Claudia Wilsch Case
Tennessee v. John T. Scopes: “Blanche” Jennings Bryan and Antievolutionism
John S. Bak
All Shook Up: Elvis, Bo, and the White Negro in Tennessee Williams’s Orpheus Descending
Charles A. Goldthwaite, Jr.
Queer Semiotics of Expression: Gothic Language and Homosexual Destruction in Tennessee Williams’s “One Arm” and “Desire and the Black Masseur”
Brian M. Peters
Tenn and the Banana Queen: The Correspondence of Tennessee Williams and Marion Black Vaccaro
Philip C. Kolin
What Was He Reading?
Nancy M. Tischler and Allean Hale
Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference Panel: Williams and His Contemporaries: Lillian Hellman
Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference Panel: Williams and the Grotesque
Tennessee Williams Annual Review 2006
The Pretty Trap, a revealing early one-act version of Williams’s classic play The Glass Menagerie, appears here in print for the first time. Featuring an array of the field’s most revered scholars, essays inside look at Williams’s work in the context of everything from Elvis Presley to the Scopes “Monkey Trial” and detail the playwright’s vast reading list.
Details
- Published 2006 by HNOC
- softcover • 6" × 9" • 192 pp.
- 9 b&w images
- ISSN 1097-6035
Contents
Foreword to The Pretty Trap
Brian Parker
Previously Unpublished: The Pretty Trap
Tennessee Williams (available only in print edition)
The Midwestern Plays of Tennessee Williams
David Radavich
Inventing Tennessee Williams: The Theatre Guild and His First Professional Production
Claudia Wilsch Case
Tennessee v. John T. Scopes: “Blanche” Jennings Bryan and Antievolutionism
John S. Bak
All Shook Up: Elvis, Bo, and the White Negro in Tennessee Williams’s Orpheus Descending
Charles A. Goldthwaite, Jr.
Queer Semiotics of Expression: Gothic Language and Homosexual Destruction in Tennessee Williams’s “One Arm” and “Desire and the Black Masseur”
Brian M. Peters
Tenn and the Banana Queen: The Correspondence of Tennessee Williams and Marion Black Vaccaro
Philip C. Kolin
What Was He Reading?
Nancy M. Tischler and Allean Hale
Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference Panel: Williams and His Contemporaries: Lillian Hellman
Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference Panel: Williams and the Grotesque