Introduction MATTHEW C．ROUDAN？ 1
List of illustrations 11
1 Early Williams：the making of a playwright ALLEAN HALE 11
CONTENTS 11
1 Maureen Stapleton，Cliff Robertson，and Gramham Denton in Orpbeus Descending at the Martin Beck Theatre，New York，1957，directed by Harold Clurman．（reproduced courtesy of the Hoblitzelle Theatre Arts Library,Humanities Research Center，University o 12
Notes on contributors 12
Chronology 16
2 Entering The Glass Menagerie C．W．E．BIGSBY 29
2 The Glass Menagerie，Zoe Wanamaker and Claire Skinner．Donmar Warehouse Theatre，1995．（Photograph：Alastair Muir．） 30
3 A streetcar running fifty years FELICIA HARDI SON LONDR？ 45
3 Karl Malden as Mitch and Jessica Tandy as Blanche in Scene 6 of A Streetcar Named Desire，directed by Elia Kazan．（Photograph：Eileen Darby．） 46
4 Camino Real：Williams's allegory about the fifties JAN BALAKIAN 67
4 Camino Real．Eli Wallach as Kilroy and Barbara Baxley as Esmeralda in Elia Kazan's March 19，1953 New York production，produced by Cheryl Crawford at the National Theatre． 68
5 Writingin“Aplace of stone”：Caton aHot TinRoof ALBERT J．DEVLIN 95
5 Ben Gazzara as Brick stumbles into the arms of Burl Ives as Big Daddy， in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof， directed by Elia Kazan．（Photograph：Zinn Arthur．） 96
6 Before the Fall-and after：Summer and Smoke and TheNigbt oftheIguana THOMAS P．ADLER 114
7 The sacrificial stud and the fugitive female in Suddenly Last Summer，Orpheus Descending，and Sweet Bird of Youth JOHNM．CLUM 128
6 The bar scene in Sweet Bird ofYouth，showing Mielziner's use of lighting in combination with Kazan's composition．Madeleine Sherwood as Miss Lucy,Paul Newman as Chance，Charles McDaniel as Scotty．（Photograph：Friedman-Abeles．） 141
8 Romantic textures in Tennessee Williams's plays and short stories NANCY M．TISCHLER 147
7 Hannah（Cherry Jones）feeds Shannon（William Petersen）some calming poppy seed tea in The Night of tbe Iguana，directed by Robert Falls，the Goodman Theatre，Chicago，1994．（Photograph：Liz Lauren．） 148
9 Creative rewriting：European and American influences on the dramas of Tennessee Williams GILBERT DEBUSSCHER 167
10 Seeking direction BRENDA MURPHY 189
11 Hollywood in crisis：Tennessee Williams and the evolution of the adultfilm R．BARTON PALMER 204
12 Tennessee Williams：the last two decades RUBY COHN 232
13 Words on Williams：a bibliographic essay JACQUELINE O'CONNOR 244
14 The Strangest Kind ofRomance：Tennessee Williams and his Broadway critics JACQUELINE O'CONNOR 255
Selected bibliography 265
Index 272