Tennessee Williams

Selected Web Resources

PRINT RESOURCES:
BIOGRAPHY: https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/tennessee-williams BIOGRAPHY: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/tennessee-williams-about-tennessee-williams/737/BIOGRAPHY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_WilliamsBIOGRAPHY: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/tennessee-williamsBIOGRAPHY: https://www.thoughtco.com/biography-of-tennessee-williams-4777775FIVE BEST PLAYS: https://www.thoughtco.com/best-plays-by-tennessee-williams-2713543OVERVIEW: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2009/jul/27/tennessee-williamsKIP KIERNAN: http://www.elisarolle.com/queerplaces/klmno/Kip%20Kiernan.htmlWILLIAMS AT 100 (2011): https://www.americamagazine.org/content/all-things/tennessee-williams-100IMPORTANCE OF NEW ORLEANS: https://countryroadsmagazine.com/art-and-culture/literature/tennessee-in-new-orleans/RESEARCHING WILLIAMS: https://libguides.wustl.edu/tennessee
SELECTED VIDEO RESOURCES:
BIOGRAPHY CHANNEL OVERVIEW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_cO_71cZxQTRUMAN AND TENNESSEE (full film): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tYbMtYnW4YGLASS MENAGERIE (1950 FILM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6gGYSt6LUM92nd STREET Y (TONY KUSHNER AND JOHN LAHR DISCUSS WILLIAMS): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUPDkf63_yc

Suggested Media

Selected Bibliography

Plays

Candles to the Sun (1936) Fugitive Kind (1937) Spring Storm (1937) Me Vashya (1937) Not About Nightingales (1938) Battle of Angels (1940) I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix (1941) The Glass Menagerie (1944) You Touched Me (1945) Stairs to the Roof (1947) A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) Summer and Smoke (1948) The Rose Tattoo (1951) Camino Real (1953) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) Orpheus Descending (1957) Suddenly Last Summer (1958) Sweet Bird of Youth (1959) Period of Adjustment (1960) The Night of the Iguana (1961) The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (1962, rewriting of Summer and Smoke) The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963) The Mutilated (1965) The Seven Descents of Myrtle (1968, aka Kingdom of Earth) In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (1969) Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis? (1969) Small Craft Warnings (1972) The Two-Character Play (1973) Out Cry (1973, rewriting of The Two-Character Play) The Red Devil Battery Sign (1975) This Is (An Entertainment) (1976) Vieux Carré (1977) Tiger Tail (1978) A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (1979) Clothes for a Summer Hotel (1980) The Notebook of Trigorin (1980) Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981) A House Not Meant to Stand (1982) In Masks Outrageous and Austere (1983)

One-Act Plays

Williams wrote over 70 one-act plays during his lifetime. The one-acts explored many of the same themes that dominated his longer works. Williams's major collections are published by New Directions in New York City.
 American Blues (1948) Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays (2005) Dragon Country: a book of one-act plays (1970) The Traveling Companion and Other Plays (2008) The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays (2011) At Liberty (1939) The Magic Tower (1936) Me, Vashya (1937) Curtains for the Gentleman (1936) In Our Profession (1938) Every Twenty Minutes (1938) Honor the Living (1937) The Case of the Crushed Petunias (1941) Moony's Kid Don't Cry (1936) The Dark Room (1939) The Pretty Trap (1944) Interior: Panic (1946) Kingdom of Earth (1967) I Never Get Dressed Till After Dark on Sundays (1973) Some Problems for the Moose Lodge (1980) 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays (1946 and 1953) «Something wild...» (introduction) (1953) 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (1946 and 1953) The Purification (1946 and 1953) The Lady of Larkspur Lotion (1946 and 1953) The Last of My Solid Gold Watches (1946 and 1953) Portrait of a Madonna (1946 and 1953) Auto-da-Fé (1946 and 1953) Lord Byron's Love Letter (1946 and 1953) The Strangest Kind of Romance (1946 and 1953) The Long Goodbye (1946 and 1953) At Liberty (1946) Moony's Kid Don't Cry (1946) Hello from Bertha (1946 and 1953) This Property Is Condemned (1946 and 1953) Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen... (1953) Something Unspoken (1953) Now the Cats with Jeweled Claws and Other One-Act Plays (2016) A Recluse and His Guest (1982) Now the Cats with Jeweled Claws (1981) Steps Must Be Gentle (1980) Ivan's Widow (1982) This Is the Peaceable Kingdom (1981) Aimez-vous Ionesco? (c.1975) The Demolition Downtown (1971) Lifeboat Drill (1979) Once in a Lifetime (1939) The Strange Play (1939) The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume VI The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume VII

Novels

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1950, adapted for films in 1961 and 2003) Moise and the World of Reason (1975)

Poetry

In the Winter of Cities (1956) Androgyne, Mon Amour (1977) The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams (2002)

Short Fiction

"The Vengeance of Nitocris" (1928) "The Field of Blue Children" (1939) "Oriflamme" (1944) "The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin" (1951) One Arm and Other Stories (1948) "One Arm" "The Malediction" "The Poet" "Chronicle of a Demise" "Desire and the Black Masseur" "Portrait of a Girl in Glass" "The Important Thing" "The Angel in the Alcove" "The Field of Blue Children" "The Night of the Iguana" "The Yellow Bird" Hard Candy: A Book of Stories (1954) Three Players of a Summer Game Two on a Party The Resemblance between a Violin Case and a Coffin Hard Candy Rubio y Morena The Mattress by the Tomato Patch The Coming of Something to the Widow Holly The Vine The Mysteries of the Joy Rio The Knightly Quest: a Novella and Four Short Stories (1966) The Knightly Quest Mama's Old Stucco House Man Bring This Up Road The Kingdom of Earth "Grand" Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed: a Book of Stories (1974) Happy August the Tenth The Inventory at Fontana Belle Miss Coynte of Greeme Sabbatha and Solitude Completed Oriflamme Tent Worms (1980) It Happened the Day the Sun Rose (1981), published by Sylvester & Orphanos Collected Stories (1985) (New Directions)

Screenplays/Teleplays

The Glass Menagerie (1950) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) The Rose Tattoo (1955) Baby Doll (1956) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) The Fugitive Kind (1959) Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966) Boom! (1968) Stopped Rocking and Other Screenplays (1984) The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2009; screenplay from 1957)

Non-fiction

Memoirs (1975) New Selected Essays: Where I Live (2009)

HIGHLIGHTS OF SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

• GLASS MENAGERIE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Menagerie• GLASS MENAGERIE: https://literariness.org/2020/10/12/analysis-of-tennessee-williamss-the-glass-menagerie/• STREETCAR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Streetcar_Named_Desire• STREET CAR (film): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Streetcar_Named_Desire_(1951_film)• SUMMER AND SMOKE: https://www.onstageblog.com/industry/2019/5/19/why-tennessee-williams-summer-amp-smoke-is-timeless• SUMMER AND SMOKE (review): https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/theater/summer-and-smoke-review.html• ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE (rewrite Summer and Smoke): https://variety.com/2008/legit/reviews/the-eccentricities-of-a-nightingale-1200522718/• THE ROSE TATTOO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rose_Tattoo• THE ROSE TATTOO (film): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rose_Tattoo_(film)• CAMINO REAL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_Real_(play)• CAMINO REAL: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/31/specials/williams-camino.html?• CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_on_a_Hot_Tin_Roof• CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (film): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_on_a_Hot_Tin_Roof_(1958_film)• SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER: https://smtd.umich.edu/past-performances/11-12-suddenly-last-summer/• SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER (film): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suddenly,_Last_Summer_(film)• SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Bird_of_Youth• SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH (film): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Bird_of_Youth_(1962_film)#• NIGHT OF THE IGUANA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_of_the_Iguana• NIGHT OF THE IGUANA (film): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_of_the_Iguana_(film)• SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Craft_Warnings• SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/31/specials/williams-craft.html• VIEUX CARRE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vieux_Carr%C3%A9_(play)• VIEUX CARRE: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/705123.Vieux_Carr_• ROMAN SPRING OF MRS. STONE (film): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roman_Spring_of_Mrs._Stone• ROMAN SPRING OF MRS STONE (novella): https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/138• BABY DOLL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Doll• BABY DOLL: https://www.highdefwatch.com/post/kazan-s-controversial-baby-doll-remains-a-shocker• ONE ARM AND OTHER STORIES: https://bookshop.org/p/books/one-arm-and-other-stories-tennessee-williams/12390118• ONE ARM AND OTHER STORIES: http://www.tennesseewilliamsstudies.org/journal/work.php?ID=123• HARD CANDY: A BOOK OF STORIES: https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Candy-Stories-Directions-Paperbook/dp/0811202216• 27 WAGONS FULL OF COTTON AND OTHER PLAYS (with links to each play): https://www.concordtheatricals.com/s/6996/27-wagons-full-of-cotton-and-other-plays• THE ONE-ACT PLAYS OF WILLIAMS (Bibliography): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_one-act_plays_by_Tennessee_Williams . WILLIAMS’ POETRY: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/tennessee-williams#tab-poems• MEMOIRS (review): https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/31/specials/williams-memoirs.html• MEMOIRS (re-evaluation review): https://therealstory.org/2018/12/21/review-memoirs-by-tennessee-williams/
Frank Merlo and Tennessee Williams

Frank Merlo

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