Maggie the Cat fights for the lives of her damaged and drinking husband Brick, herself, and their unborn children in the revised version of Williams' acclaimed dramatization of Big Daddy's birthday and deathday party and family gathering
The tragic lives of a guilt-ridden alcoholic, his sexually-frustrated wife, and a tyrannical patriarch are violently exposed in Williams' renowned play.
Tennessee Williams's second Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof confronts homosexuality, father and son relationships, greed, manipulation, aging, and death. Study the play that has been referred to as brutally honest.
BITS OF A SHATTERED RAINBOW ” The Individual and the Family “ Then all at once my sister touches my shoulder . I turn around and look into her eyes ... Oh , Laura , I tried to leave you behind me , but I am more faithful than intended ...
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
"Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" is a play by Tennessee Williams. One of Williams's best-known works and his personal favorite, the play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955.
Inspired by the true story of a kleptomaniac cat who stole his way into America’s heart .
73. 19 Joseph N. Riddell, 'A Streetcar Named Desire—Nietzsche Descending,' reprinted in Twentieth Century Interpretations of 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' ed. Jordan Y. Miller (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1971), p. 80. 20 Riddell ...
Presents critical essays that discuss the characters, plot, and major themes of the play about a Southern American family in crisis, by such academics as M. Thomas Inge, Dean Shackelford, and David A. Davis.
- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from "The Odyssey through modern literature- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism- Contains critical biographies, notes...
As mirrors of his emotional and imaginative life, the plays of Tennessee Williams explore the darker side of human nature and are haunted by the pervasive theme of loneliness that...