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By Thomas P. Adler

ISBN-10: 0230228682

ISBN-13: 9780230228689

ISBN-10: 0230228690

ISBN-13: 9780230228696

A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and Cat on a scorching Tin Roof (1955) are significant performs through Tennessee Williams, one in every of America's most vital dramatists. They either got landmark productions and are widely-studied and played world wide. The performs have additionally encouraged well known reveal diversifications and feature generated a physique of significant and lasting scholarship.

In this vital Reader's consultant, Thomas P. Adler:

• charts the improvement of the feedback surrounding either works, from the mid-twentieth century via to the current day
• presents a readable review of the major debates and issues
• examines a number theoretical methods from biographical and New feedback to feminist and queer theory.

In so doing, Adler is helping us to understand why those performs proceed to fascinate readers, theatregoers and administrators alike.

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