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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.
Regarding this production, Williams wrote in his Memoirs, "The laughter, genuine and loud, at the comedy I had written enchanted me. Then and there the theatre and I found each other for better and for worse. I know it's the only thing that's saved my life." [3] [4] It was published for the first time in 2016, in the Tennessee Williams Annual ...
Judge Williams was an avid scholar and collector of Tennessee history; he donated many of his items to libraries and museums. His papers are held by the East Tennessee State University Archives of Appalachia, the University of Tennessee 's Frank H. McClung Museum , and the Archives of Emory University .
In Masks Outrageous and Austere is the final full-length play of Tennessee Williams, written perhaps as early as 1970, but chiefly between 1978 and the fall of 1982.The play’s literary roots for characters and situations can be found in Williams’ 1945 short story "Tent Worms". [2]
The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays is a collection of 15 plays, seven of them previously unpublished, by American playwright Tennessee Williams.Published by New Directions in New York City in 2011, Williams' scholar Thomas Keith edited the volume and provided the critical notes while playwright Terrence McNally, winner of four Tony Awards, wrote the foreword.
William Kenneth Holditch (September 18, 1933 – December 7, 2022) was a Professor Emeritus of English at the University of New Orleans. He was one of the pre-eminent scholars of the American playwright Tennessee Williams.
The Sons of Tennessee Williams is a 2010 American historical documentary film produced and directed by Tim Wolff. The film spans five decades documenting the gay carnival balls in New Orleans, and the efforts of the gay community to celebrate Mardi Gras, without being discriminated against and without fear of police intervention.
Acknowledging its "comic overtones", literary critic Dennis Vannatta regards the piece as merely "the prototype for Williams’s great play Summer and Smoke." [8] The story is "interesting to an extent, but [not] fully enough realized to contribute measurably to Williams's reputation as a short story writer" and concludes the story is "rambling ...