Williams's The Municipal Abattoir.(Tennessee Williams)

From: The Explicator | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

A newly published Tennessee Williams one-act play contributes to his reputation as a politically conscious playwright. The Municipal Abattoir, published in 2005 but written in the 1960s, fits into a long thematic history of Williams's works where young revolutionary outcasts attack oppressive regimes. Williams's own revolutionary zeal extended from his early Socialist-inspired Not About Nightingales (1938), condemning prison abuses, through Camino Real (1953), decrying violations of human rights, to his late, Absurdist one-acts such as The Chalky White Substance (published in ...

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