Influence of Tennessee Williams

Philip C. Kolin is a distinguished professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, where he teaches drama. He has published more than 40 books and 200 articles.

“recommended”—Choice; “Philip Kolin, a most prolific and outstanding Williams expert, has gathered a team of well-known scholars, whose comparative approach not only substantiates Williams’s stature in the American theatre, but also helps us see other playwrights in a new light”—Amerikastudien.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Preface      Introduction: The Panoptic Tennessee WilliamsPhilip C. Kolin      “[Our] Little Company of the Odd and Lonely”: Tennessee Williams’s “Personality” in the Plays of William IngeMichael Greenwald      Neil Simon’s Parodies of Tennessee WilliamsSusan Koprince      “Inconspicuous Osmosis and the Plasticity of Doing”: The Influence of Tennessee Williams on the Plays of Edward AlbeeDavid A. Crespy      “Cracking the Shell of Literalness”: The Itinerary of Paternal Consciousness in Williams’s Tragedy with Notes on Its Influence on Gurney’s ComedyArvid F. Sponberg      “That gentleman with the painfully sympathetic eyes...”: Re-reading Lorraine Hansberry Through Tennessee WilliamsNancy Cho      The Fission of Tennessee Williams’s Plays into Adrienne Kennedy’sPhilip C. Kolin      Warriors Against the Kitchen Sink: Tennessee Williams and John GuareThomas Mitchell      Image, Myth, and Movement in the Plays of Sam Shepard and Tennessee WilliamsAnnette J. Saddik      Sons of the South: An Examination of the Interstices in the Works of August Wilson and Tennessee WilliamsSandra G. Shannon      Williams, Mamet, and the Artist In ExtremisBrenda Murphy      The Symbiosis of Desire and Death: Beth Henley Rewrites Tennessee WilliamsVerna A. Foster      “Period of Adjustment”: Marriage in Williams and Christopher DurangJohn M. Clum      “All Truth Is a Scandal”: How Tennessee Williams Shaped Tony Kushner’s PlaysKirk Woodward      Twilight in Tennessee: The Similar Styles of Anna Deavere Smith and Tennessee WilliamsHarvey Young      Theatre of the Gut: Tennessee Williams and Suzan-Lori ParksHarry J. Elam, Jr      Swimming to Chekhovia: Edward Albee on Tennessee Williams—An InterviewDavid A. Crespy      About the Contributors      Index