Tennessee Williams /
editor, Brenda Murphy.
- Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2011.
- ix, 382 p. ; 24 cm.
- Critical insights .
- Critical insights. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-365) and index. "Works by Tennessee Williams": p. 360-362.
On Tennessee Williams / Biography of Tennessee Williams / The Paris review perspective / The critical reception of the works of Tennessee Williams / Tennessee Williams on America / "Getting the colored lights going": expressionism in A streetcar named Desire / Mendacity on the stage: "lying and liars" in Cat on a hot tin roof / A gallery of witches / Culture, power, and the (en)gendering of community: Tennessee Williams and politics / Deranged artists: creativity and madness / Flying the Jolly Roger: images of escape and selfhood in The glass menagerie / "Fifty percent illusion": The mask of the southern belle in Tennessee Williams's A streetcar named Desire, The glass menagerie, and "Portrait of a Madonna" / Williams in ebony: black and multi-racial productions of A streetcar named Desire / "Something cloudy, something clear": homophobic discourse in Tennessee Williams / "sneakin' and spyin'" from Broadway to the Beltway: cold war masculinity, Brick, and homosexual existentialism / "Collecting evidence": the natural world in Tennessee Williams' The night of the iguana / Red devil battery sign: an approach to a mytho-political theatre / Tennessee Williams' Out cry in The two-character play / Peeping Tom: voyeurism, taboo, and truth in the world of Williams's short fiction / "The transmutation of experience": the aesthetics and themes of Williams's nonfiction / Brenda Murphy -- Robert J. Forman -- Sasha Weiss for The Paris review -- Jennifer Banach -- Susan C. W. Abbotson -- Henry I. Schvey -- Kenneth Elliott -- Nancy M. Tischler -- Thomas P. Adler -- Jacqueline O'Connor -- Lori Leathers Single -- George Hovis -- Philip C. Kolin -- John M. Clum -- John S. Bak -- Rod Phillips -- James Schlatter -- Nicholas O. Pagan -- George W. Crandell -- D. Dean Shackelford.