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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: Languages, Bodies and Ecologies Barnett, David. "Further Reading." The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: Languages, Bodies and Ecologies. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2014. 278–292. Bloomsbury Collections. Web. 4 Oct. 2021. <http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472515452.0021>. Downloaded from Bloomsbury Collections, www.bloomsburycollections.com, 4 October 2021, 20:55 UTC. Copyright © Brenda Murphy 2014. You may share this work for non-commercial purposes only, provided you give attribution to the copyright holder and the publisher, and provide a link to the Creative Commons licence. FURTHER READING Works by Tennessee Williams American Blues (New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1948). Candles to the Sun, ed. Dan Isaac (New York: New Directions, 2004). Th e Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams , eds. David Ernest Roessel and Nicholas Rand Moschovakis (New York: New Directions, 2002). (Cited as CP) Five O ’ Clock Angel: Letters of Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just 1948 – 1982 (New York: Knopf, 1990). Fugitive Kind , ed. Allean Hale (New York: New Directions, 2001). A House Not Meant to Stand , ed. Th omas Keith (New York: New Directions, 2008). “ ‘ I Have Rewritten a Play for Artistic Purity, ’ ” New York Times , 21 November 1976, 77. Th e Magic Tower and Other Plays , ed. Th omas Keith (New York: New Directions, 2011). Memoirs (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975). (Cited as M) Moise and the World of Reason: A Novel (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975). New Selected Essays: Where I Live , ed. John S. Bak (New York: New Directions, 2009). (Cited as NSE) Not About Nightingales , ed. Allean Hale (New York: New Directions, 1998). Th e Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams: Volume I 1920 – 1945 , eds. Albert J. Devlin and Nancy M. Tischler (New York: New Directions, 2000). (Cited as L1) Th e Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams: Volume II 1945 – 1957 , eds. Albert J. Devlin and Nancy M. Tischler (New York: New Directions, 2004). (Cited as L2) Something Cloudy, Something Clear (New York: New Directions, 1995). Spring Storm , ed. Dan Isaac (New York: New Directions, 1999). Stairs to the Roof , ed. Allean Hale (New York: New Directions, 2000). A Streetcar Named Desire : Acting Edition (New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1947). Tennessee Williams Collected Stories (New York: New Directions, 1985). (Cited as CS) Tennessee Williams ’ Letters to Donald Windham 1940 – 1965 , ed. Donald Windham (New York: Penguin, 1980). Tennessee Williams: Notebooks , ed. Margaret Bradham Th ornton (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006). (Cited as N) Tennessee Williams Plays: 1937 – 1955 (New York: Library of America, 2000). (Cited as P1) Spring Storm, Not About Nightingales, Battle of Angels, I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix, 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, Th e Lady of Larkspur Lotion, Th e Last of My Solid Gold Watches, Portrait of a Madonna, Auto-da-Fe, Lord Byron ’ s Love Letter, Th is Property Is Condemned, Th e Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Summer and Smoke, Th e Rose Tattoo, Camino Real, “ Something Wild, ” Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen, Something Unspoken, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Tennessee Williams: Plays 1957 – 1980 (New York: Library of America, 2000). (Cited as P2) 278 TTheatre.indbheatre.indb 227878 110/11/20130/11/2013 110:28:420:28:42 AAMM Further Reading Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer, Sweet Bird of Youth, Period of Adjustment, Th e Night of the Iguana, Th e Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Th e Milk Train Doesn ’ t Stop Here Anymore, Th e Mutilated, Kingdom of Earth (Th e Seven Descents of Myrtle), Small Craft Warnings, Out Cry, Vieux Carr é , A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur Th e Th eatre of Tennessee Williams, 8 Vols. (New York: New Directions, 1971 – 1992). (Cited as T and volume number). VOLUME 1: Battle of Angels, A Streetcar Named Desire, Th e Glass Menagerie VOLUME 2: Th e Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Summer and Smoke, Th e Rose Tattoo, Camino Real VOLUME 3: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer VOLUME 4: Sweet Bird of Youth, Period of Adjustment, Th e Night of the Iguana VOLUME 5: Th e Milk Train Doesn ’ t Stop Here Anymore, Kingdom of Earth (Th e Seven Descents of Myrtle), Small Craft Warnings, Th e Two-Character Play VOLUME 6: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton , Th e Purifi cation, Th e Lady of Larkspur Lotion, Th e Last of My Solid Gold Watches, Portrait of a Madonna, Auto-Da-F é , Lord Byron ’ s Love Letter, Th e Strangest Kind of Romance, Th e Long Good-bye, Hello from Bertha, Th is Property Is Condemned, Talk to Me Like the Rain . ., Something Unspoken, Th e Unsatisfactory Supper, Steps Must be Gentle, Th e Demolition Downtown VOLUME 7: In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel , I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix, Th e Mutilated, I Can ’ t Imagine Tomorrow, Confessional, Th e Frosted Glass Coffi n, Th e Gn ä diges Fr ä ulein, A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot, Lifeboat Drill, Now the Cats with Jewelled Claws, Th is is the Peaceable Kingdom VOLUME 8: Vieux Carré, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, Clothes for a Summer Hotel, Th e Red Devil Battery Sign Th e Traveling Companion and Other Plays , ed. Annette J. Saddik (New York: New Directions, 2008). Vieux Carr é (New York: New Directions, 1979). Unpublished Manuscripts [ “ and in this way we fi ght the bang-bang ” ]. Fragment of the essay “ Prelude to a Comedy ” [c. 1960]. TWPC, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, n.d. “ Th e Good Men & the Bad Men. ” Fragment of an essay [c. 1960]. MS Th r 397 (725 & 726). TWPHL, Houghton Library, Harvard University, n.d. [ “ Th e last time I wrote . ” ]. Fragment of an essay [c. 1960].TWPC, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, n.d. “ A Playwright ’ s Prayer in Rehearsal ” . Fragment of an essay [c. 1959]. MS Th r 397 (753). TWPHL, Houghton Library, Harvard University, n.d. [ “ Reply to Professor Brustein ” ]. Fragments of an essay [c. July 1959]. MS Th r 397 (756 & 757). TWPHL, Houghton Library, Harvard University, n.d. “ Some Philosophical Shop Talk, or An Inventory of a Remarkable Market ” . Fragments of an essay [c. 1960]. TWPC, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, n.d. 279 TTheatre.indbheatre.indb 227979 110/11/20130/11/2013 110:28:420:28:42 AAMM Further Reading Biographies, Interviews, Documentaries, and Memoirs Brockway, Merrill et al. Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage , American Masters Series, WNET Television (Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2003). Cave, Mark, “ Something Wild in the Country: Th e Fugitive Life of Tennessee Williams. ” Southern Quarterly , 48, 4 (Summer 2011): 11 – 31. Devlin, Albert J. (ed.), Conversations with Tennessee Williams (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1986). (Cited as C) Kazan, Elia, Elia Kazan: A Life (New York: Knopf, 1988). Leverich, Lyle, Tom: Th e Unknown Tennessee Williams (New York: Crown, 1995). McHaney, Pearl Amelia, “ Tennessee Williams, ” American Dramatists: Contemporary Authors Bibliographic Series, III, ed. Matthew Roudan é (Detroit: Gale, 1989): 385 – 429. Mielziner, Jo, Designing for the Th eatre: A Memoir and a Portfolio (New York: Bramhall House, 1965). Mitchell, Tom, “ Tennessee Williams and the Mummers of St. Louis: Th e Birth of a Playwright. ” Tennessee Williams Annual Review 10 (2009): 91 – 104. Rader, Dotson, Tennessee: Cry of the Heart (Garden City: Doubleday, 1985). Smith, William Jay, My Friend Tom: Th e Poet-Playwright Tennessee Williams (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012). Spoto, Donald, Th e Kindness of Strangers: Th e Life of Tennessee Williams (New York: Ballantine, 1986). Steen, Mike, A Look at Tennessee Williams (New York: Hawthorn, 1969). Tennessee Williams: Th e Wounded Genius. A&E Television, 1998. Van Antwerp, Margaret A. and Sally Johns (eds), Dictionary of Literary Biography , Documentary Series, IV: Tennessee Williams (Detroit: Gale, 1984). Williams, Dakin and Shepherd Mead, Tennessee Williams: An Intimate Biography by His Brother (New York: Arbor House, 1983). Williams, Edwina Dakin, as told to Lucy Freeman, Remember Me to Tom (New York: Putnam, 1963). Windham, Donald, Lost Friendships: A Personal Memoir of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and Others (New York: Morrow, 1987). Bibliographies and Reference Works Arnott, Catherine M., Tennessee Williams on File (London: Methuen, 1985). Crandell, George W., Tennessee Williams: A Descriptive Bibliography (Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1995). — (ed.), Th e Critical Response to Tennessee Williams (Westport: Greenwood, 1996). Dony, Nadine, “ Tennessee Williams: A Selected Bibliography. ” Modern Drama 1 (1958): 181 – 91. Gunn, Dewey Wayne, Tennessee Williams: A Bibliography (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1980). 280 TTheatre.indbheatre.indb 228080 110/11/20130/11/2013 110:28:420:28:42 AAMM Further Reading Kolin, Philip C., Th e Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2004). — (ed.), Tennessee Williams: A Guide to Research and Performance (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998). McCann, John S., Th e Critical Reputation of Tennessee Williams: A Reference Guide (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1983). Presley, Delma E., “ Tennessee Williams: Twenty-Five Years of Criticism. ” Bulletin Of Bibliography 30 (1973): 21 – 9. Smith-Howard, Alycia and Greta Heintzelman, Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work (New York: Facts on File, 2005). Reviews and Criticism of Individual Plays Battle of Angels and Orpheus Descending “ Battle of Angels to Have Lines Cut. ” Boston Post (7 January 1941): 8. Case, Claudia Wilsch, “ Inventing Tennessee Williams: Th e Th eatre Guild and His First Professional Production. ” Th e Tennessee Williams Annual Review 8 (2006): 51 – 71. E. F. M., “ Battle of Angels, ” Christian Science Monitor (31 December 1940). Hastings, Morris, “ Miriam Hopkins Returns, ” Boston Transcript (31 December 1940). Libbey, “ Battle of Angels, ” Variety (31 December 1940). “ Miriam Hopkins at Wilbur. ” Boston Post (31 December 1940): 8.
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