Williams, Tennessee
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Williams, Tennessee ( Thomas Lanier Williams) (1911–83), American dramatist, achieved success with the semi-autobiographical
The Glass Menagerie (1944, pub. 1945), a poignant and painful family drama set in St Louis, in which a frigid and frustrated mother's dreams of her glamorous past as a Southern belle conflict with the grimness of her reduced circumstances. His next big success was
A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), a study of sexual frustration, violence, and aberration, set in New Orleans, in which Blanche Dubois' fantasies of refinement and grandeur are brutally destroyed by her brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Williams continued to write prolifically, largely in a Gothic and macabre vein, but with insight into human passion and its perversions; his other works include
The Rose Tattoo (1950);
Camino Real (1953);
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), a Freudian family drama which takes place at wealthy cotton planter Big Daddy's 65th birthday, while his daughter-in-law Maggie fights to save her marriage to the alcoholic and despairing Brick;
Suddenly Last Summer (1958);
Sweet Bird of Youth (1959);
The Night of the Iguana (1962); and a novella,
The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (1950).
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Tennessee Williams
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Williams, Tennessee
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Tennessee Williams Born: March 26, 1914Columbus...dramatist, playwright, and writer Tennessee Williams, dramatist and fiction writer...Hot Tin Roof. Becoming Tennessee Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams in...
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Williams, Tennessee (Thomas Lanier Williams)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Williams, Tennessee (Thomas Lanier Williams) (1911–83), born in Mississippi and reared...darkest side of life in Gothic situations and settings, but Williams's characters live by experiencing a full emotional involvement...
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Williams, Mary Lou
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
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Williams, Paul R. 1894–1980
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
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