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Understanding Tennessee Williams
Alice Griffin
Published
2011
by University of South Carolina Press in Columbia, South Carolina
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Written in English
Alice Griffin offers an in-depth evaluation of the nine plays that established Tennessee Williams as America"s greatest lyric dramatist. Describing him as the first playwright writing in English to combine full-blooded characters, theatricalism, and poetic dialogue, Griffin considers Williams both as a literary figure and as a stage innovator. --from publisher description
Edition Notes
| Other titles | Tennessee Williams |
| Statement | by Alice Griffin |
| Series | Understanding contemporary American literature, Understanding contemporary American literature |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PS3545.I5365 Z664 2011 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | xv, 266 p. |
| Number of Pages | 266 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL27130089M |
| ISBN 10 | 1611170060 |
| ISBN 10 | 9781611170061 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 704895922 |
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Alice Griffin offers an in-depth evaluation of the nine plays that established Tennessee Williams as America's greatest lyric dramatist. Describing him as the first playwright writing in English to combine full-blooded characters, theatricalism, and poetic dialogue, Griffin considers Williams both as a literary figure and as a stage innovator.
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