Many of these are unfamiliar some are short versions of works he continued to reshape later, often over long periods of time ( Something Cloudy, Something Clear – usually referred to as Williams’ last play, dating from 1981 – was based on a one-act he wrote 40 years before.) It’s dizzying even to keep track of the various titles – what started as Battle of Angels later became Orpheus Descending, and (still later, on film) The Fugitive Kind. In addition to the ten or so plays that are the source of Williams’ greatest fame, there are poems, short stories, memoirs, screenplays, letters (published and unpublished) and more.
What a daunting biographical subject Tennessee Williams must be!įor starters, his oeuvre – surely one of the greatest in American theatre – is also one of the most sprawling, even messy.
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