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The performs of Tennessee Williams' post-1961 interval have frequently been misunderstood and brushed aside. In mild of Williams' centennial in 2011, which was once marked across the world by way of productions and global premieres of his overdue performs, Annette J. Saddik's new interpreting of those works illuminates them within the context of what she phrases a 'theatre of excess', which seeks liberation via exaggeration, chaos, ambiguity, and laughter. Saddik explains why they're now gaining expanding acclaim, and analyzes contemporary productions that effectively captured parts primary to Williams' past due aesthetic, relatively a fragile stability of laughter and horror with a self-consciously ironic performing sort. Grounding the performs in the course of the paintings of Bakhtin, Artaud, and Kristeva, in addition to in the course of the carnivalesque, the gruesome, and psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer thought, Saddik demonstrates how Williams engaged the liberty of exaggeration and extra in occasion of what he known as 'the unusual, the crazed, the queer'.