Tennessee Williams' Plays; Memory, Myth, and Symbol

by Judith J. Thompson

Book Overview

This book identifies a recurrent structural pattern in Tennessee Williams' plays that lends organic integrity to their evocations of memory, myth, and symbol. Judith J. Thompson examines the evolution of a pattern of mythic recollection and existential reenactment in seventeen Williams plays - from its most successful realization in The Glass Menagerie through The Night of the Iguana to its parody in A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820457442
• ISBN13: 9780820457444
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"