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Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter.Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.
Blanche DuBois (married name Grey) is a fictional character in Tennessee Williams' 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Streetcar Named Desire.The character was written for Tallulah Bankhead and made popular to later audiences with Elia Kazan's 1951 film adaptation of Williams' play; A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando.
Williams neither condemns nor condones this sort of love; it is the way Stella yields to her marriage. Blanche, who has arrived for a "visit," is horrified by her sister's situation and tries to convince Stella to divorce Stanley. Stella refuses, however, bound to Stanley by sexual attraction and her pregnancy with his child.
Set in St. Louis in the mid-1930s, the play focuses on four women struggling for a sense of identity and independence. Dorothea, a deluded Blanche DuBois-like middle-aged civics teacher at the local high school, fantasizes her cad of a beau, school principal T. Ralph Ellis, is really Prince Charming after allowing him to seduce her in the back seat of his car.
“Mad Pilgrimage: The Short Stories of Tennessee Williams” Studies in Short Fiction, Summer 1964 in Tennessee Williams: A Study of the Short Fiction. p. 77 Twayne Publishers, G. K. Hall & Co., Boston, Massachusetts. ISBN 0-8057-8304-0; Price, Reynolds. 1985. ‘His Battle Cry Was 'Valor!'” Review of Tennessee Williams: Collected Stories.
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In 1948, at a party at her friend John Gielgud's house in Chelsea, Britneva met Tennessee Williams and they became passionate life-long friends. She was the inspiration for Maggie the Cat in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which Williams dedicated to her, borrowing Maria's descriptive of her in-laws, (no-neck monsters), for one of Maggie's most famous lines.
On Dec. 20, journalist, author and documentary producer Andrea Williams joined The Tennessean as the new opinion and engagement reporter and curator of the Black Tennessee Voices initiative, which ...