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List of illustrations and acknowledgements Notes on contributors Chronology Introduction Matthew C. Roudane 1. Early Williams: the making of a playwright Allean Hale 2. Entering The Glass Menagerie C. W. E. Bigsby 3. A streetcar running fifty years Felicia Hardison Londre 4. Camino Real: Williams's allegory about the fifties Jan Balakian 5. Writing in 'A Place of Stone': Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Albert J. Devlin 6. Before the fall - and after: Summer and Smoke and The Night of the Iguana Thomas P. Adler 7. The sacrificial stud and the fugitive female in Suddenly Last Summer, Orpheus Descending, and Sweet Bird of Youth John M. Clum 8. Romantic textures in Tennessee Williams's plays and short stories Nancy M. Tischler 9. Seeking direction Brenda Murphy 10. Hollywood in crisis: Tennessee Williams and the evolution of the adult film R. Barton Palmer 11. Tennessee Williams: the last two decades Ruby Cohn 12. Words on Williams: a bibliographical essay Jacqueline O'Connor 13. The Strangest Kind of Romance: Tennessee Williams and his Broadway critics Jacqueline O'Connor Index.

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