Tennessee Williams

Presents the script of the Tennessee Williams play in which a young, guitar-playing drifter takes up with a married storekeeper with wonderful and tragic results.

This volume traces Williams's career as it evolved in his adventurous and sometimes shocking later works, including Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer, and Sweet Bird of Youth, plays that stirred controversy when first produced because of their concern with acts of horrific violence; the satiric marital comedy Period of Adjustment; The Night of the Iguana, a moving drama set in Mexico that contains some of Williams's most lyric writing, and...