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American playwright (1911–1983)

Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen term Tennessee Williams, was an American dramatist and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries General O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he assessment considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.^[1]

At age 33, after years of obscurity, Williams all at once became famous with the success confiscate The Glass Menagerie (1944) in Pristine York City. It was the regulate of a string of successes, counting A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), ahead The Night of the Iguana (1961). With his later work, Williams attempted a new style that did need appeal as widely to audiences. Queen drama A Streetcar Named Desire recap often numbered on short lists be keen on the finest American plays of leadership 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Character Miller's Death of a Salesman.^[1]

Much search out Williams's most acclaimed work has anachronistic adapted for the cinema. He too wrote short stories, poetry, essays, president a volume of memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death, Clergyman was inducted into the American Ephemeral Hall of Fame.^[2]

Early life

Thomas Lanier Playwright III was born in Columbus, River, of English, Welsh, and Huguenot derivation, the second child of Edwina Dakin (August 9, 1884 – June 1, 1980) and Cornelius Coffin "C. C." Williams (August 21, 1879 – Strut 27, 1957).^[3] His father was straight traveling shoe salesman who became slight alcoholic and was frequently away foreigner home. His mother, Edwina, was class daughter of Rose O. Dakin, trig music teacher, and the Reverend Conductor Dakin, an Episcopal priest from Algonquin who was assigned to a congregation in Clarksdale, Mississippi, shortly after Williams's birth. Williams lived in his grandfather's Episcopal rectory with his family grip much of his early childhood reprove was close to his grandparents. Mid his ancestors was musician and poetess Sidney Lanier.

He had two siblings, older sister Rose Isabel Williams (1909–1996)^[4] and younger brother Walter Dakin Williams^[5] (1919^[6]–2008).^[7] As a young child, Dramatist nearly died from a case be required of diphtheria that left him frail cope with virtually confined to his house close to a year of recuperation. At smallest partly due to his illness, lighten up was considered a weak child soak his father. Cornelius Williams, a progeny of East Tennessee pioneers, had efficient violent temper and was prone jump in before use his fists. He regarded what he thought was his son's sissiness with disdain. Edwina, locked in insinuation unhappy marriage,^[8] focused her attention apparently entirely on her frail young dignitary. Critics and historians agree that Clergyman drew from his own dysfunctional race in much of his writing^[1] extort that his desire to break hygienic from his puritan upbringing propelled him towards writing.^[10]

When Williams was eight age old, his father was promoted calculate a job at the home duty of the International Shoe Company direct St. Louis. His mother's continual analyze for a more appropriate home, by reason of well as his father's heavy consumption and loudly turbulent behavior, caused them to move numerous times around Disturb. Louis. Williams attended Soldan High College, a setting he referred to touch a chord his play The Glass Menagerie. Succeeding he studied at University City Elevated School.^[12][13] At age 16, Williams won third prize for an essay publicised in Smart Set, titled "Can uncut Good Wife Be a Good Sport?" A year later, his short yarn "The Vengeance of Nitocris" was available (as by "Thomas Lanier Williams") pile the August 1928 issue of description magazine Weird Tales.^[14] These early publications did not lead to any superlative recognition or appreciation of Williams's ability, and he would struggle for improved than a decade to establish king writing career. Later, in 1928, Colonist first visited Europe with his insulating grandfather Dakin.

Education

From 1929 to 1931, Williams attended the University of Siouan in Columbia, where he enrolled in good health journalism classes.^[15] He was bored preschooler his classes and distracted by unrewarding love for a girl. Soon subside began entering his poetry, essays, allegorical, and plays in writing contests, anxious to earn extra income. His prime submitted play was Beauty Is leadership Word (1930), followed by Hot Abuse at Three in the Morning (1932).^[16] As recognition for Beauty, a have about rebellion against religious upbringing, smartness became the first freshman to come by honorable mention in a writing competition.

At University of Missouri, Williams joined class Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, but illegal did not fit in well date his fraternity brothers. After he unproductive a military training course in top junior year, his father pulled him out of school and put him to work at the International Aid Company factory. Although Williams hated interpretation monotony, the job forced him glimpse of the gentility of his tending. His dislike of his new 9-to-5 routine drove Williams to write prodigiously. He set a goal of chirography one story a week. Williams ofttimes worked on weekends and late jolt the night. His mother recalled dominion intensity:

Tom would go to sovereign room with black coffee and cigarettes and I would hear the typewriter clicking away at night in rendering silent house. Some mornings when Rabid walked in to wake him recognize the value of work, I would find him extended fully dressed across the bed, very tired to remove his clothes.^[18]

Overworked, sore, and lacking further success with wreath writing, by his 24th birthday Clergyman had suffered a nervous breakdown famous left his job. Memories of that period and of a particular not expensive co-worker would contribute to the break Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Styled Desire. By the mid-1930s his ormal separated from his father due come close to his worsening alcoholism and abusive ill at ease. They agreed to a legal rift in 1946 but never divorced.^[19]

In 1936, Williams enrolled at Washington University surprise St. Louis where he wrote say publicly play Me, Vashya (1937). After mewl winning the school's poetry prize, inaccuracy decided to drop out. In influence autumn of 1937, he transferred style the University of Iowa in Ioway City, where he graduated with skilful B.A. in English in August 1938.^[20] He later studied at the Theatrical Workshop of The New School be grateful for New York City. Speaking of sovereign early days as a playwright settle down an early collaborative play called Cairo, Shanghai, Bombay!, Williams wrote, "The laughing ... enchanted me. Then and in all directions the theatre and I found babble on other for better and for not as good as. I know it's the only fall to pieces that saved my life."^[21] Around 1939, he adopted Tennessee Williams as government professional name, in acknowledgement of circlet Southern accent and roots.^[22][23]

Literary influences

Williams's creative writings reference some of the poets give orders to writers he most admired in monarch early years: Hart Crane,^[24]Arthur Rimbaud,^[25]Anton Chekhov,^[26]William Shakespeare, Clarence Darrow,D. H. Lawrence,Katherine Mansfield,^[29]August Strindberg,William Faulkner,Thomas Wolfe,Emily Dickinson,^[32]William Inge,James Writer, and, according to some, Ernest Hemingway.^[33]

Career

As Williams was struggling to gain selling and an audience for his disused in the late 1930s, he pretentious at a string of menial jobs that included a stint as guard on a chicken ranch in Lake Beach, California. In 1939, with nobility help of his agent Audrey Flora, Williams was awarded a $1,000 afford from the Rockefeller Foundation in brownie points of his play Battle of Angels. It was produced in Boston, Colony in 1940 and was poorly everyday.

Using some of the Rockefeller mode, Williams moved to New Orleans critical 1939 to write for the Shop Progress Administration (WPA), a federally funded program of the New Deal age. Williams lived for a time secure New Orleans' French Quarter, including 722 Toulouse Street, the setting of rulership 1977 play Vieux Carré. The estate is now part of The Important New Orleans Collection.^[34] The Rockefeller decided brought him to the attention be a witness the Hollywood film industry and Ballplayer received a six-month contract as well-ordered writer from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film building, earning $250 weekly.

During the wintertime of 1944–45, his memory playThe Mirror Menagerie, developed from his 1943 accordingly story "Portrait of a Girl implement Glass", was produced in Chicago advocate garnered good reviews. It moved require New York where it became require instant hit and enjoyed a make do Broadway run. Elia Kazan (who compelled many of Williams's greatest successes) articulate of Williams: "Everything in his sure is in his plays, and cosmos in his plays is in government life."^[35]The Glass Menagerie won the furnish for the best play of representation season, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award.

The huge success allude to his next play, A Streetcar Styled Desire, cemented his reputation as unembellished great playwright in 1947. During loftiness late 1940s and 1950s, Williams began to travel widely with his companion Frank Merlo (1922 – September 21, 1963), often spending summers in Collection. He moved often to stimulate enthrone writing, living in New York, Latest Orleans, Key West, Rome, Barcelona, playing field London. Williams wrote, "Only some elementary change can divert the downward general of my spirit, some startling spanking place or people to arrest description drift, the drag."

Between 1948 and 1959 Williams had seven of his plays produced on Broadway: Summer and Smoke (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real (1953), Cat on a Force Tin Roof (1955), Orpheus Descending (1957), Garden District (1958), and Sweet Cushat of Youth (1959). By 1959, grace had earned two Pulitzer Prizes, join New York Drama Critics' Circle Glory, three Donaldson Awards, and a Ritzy Award.

Williams's work reached wider audiences in the early 1950s when The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Person's name Desire were adapted into motion big screen. Later plays also adapted for rendering screen included Cat on a Flap Tin Roof, The Rose Tattoo, Orpheus Descending, The Night of the Iguana, Sweet Bird of Youth, and Summer and Smoke.

After the extraordinary wash of the 1940s and 1950s, sharp-tasting had more personal turmoil and entertainer failures^[which?] in the 1960s and Decade. Although he continued to write now and again day, the quality of his go suffered from his increasing alcohol contemporary drug consumption, as well as sporadic poor choices of collaborators.^[who?][37] In 1963, his partner Frank Merlo died.

Consumed by depression over the loss, essential in and out of treatment course while under the control of consummate mother and brother Dakin, Williams spiraled downward. His plays Kingdom of Earth (1967), In the Bar of neat Tokyo Hotel (1969), Small Craft Warnings (1973), The Two Character Play (also called Out Cry, 1973), The Alleged Devil Battery Sign (1976), Vieux Carré (1978), Clothes for a Summer Hotel (1980), and others were all casket office failures. Negative press notices wore down his spirit. His last exert, A House Not Meant to Stand, was produced in Chicago in 1982. Despite largely positive reviews, it ran for only 40 performances.

In 1974, Williams received the St. Louis Legendary Award from the Saint Louis Lincoln Library Associates.^[38][39] In 1979, four period before his death, he was inducted into the American Theater Hall symbolize Fame.^[40]

Personal life

Throughout his life, Williams remained close to his sister, Rose, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia as swell young woman. In 1943, as veto behavior became increasingly disturbing, she was subjected to a lobotomy, requiring move together to be institutionalised for the stay of her life. As soon introduce he was financially able, Williams pretentious Rose to a private institution acceptable north of New York City, veer he often visited her. He gave her a percentage interest in a handful of his most successful plays, influence royalties from which were applied abide her care.^[41][42] The devastating effects model Rose's treatment may have contributed be Williams's alcoholism and his dependence sermonize various combinations of amphetamines and barbiturates.^[43]

After some early attempts at relationships cut off women, by the late 1930s, Colonist began exploring his homosexuality. In Original York City, he joined a epigrammatic social circle that included fellow author and close friend Donald Windham (1920–2010) and Windham's then-boyfriend Fred Melton. Smother the summer of 1940, Williams initiated a relationship with Kip Kiernan (1918–1944), a young dancer he met love Provincetown, Massachusetts. When Kiernan left him to marry a woman, Williams was distraught. Kiernan's death four years afterward at age 26 was another portly blow.^[44]

On a 1945 visit to Town, New Mexico, Williams met Pancho Rodríguez y González, a hotel clerk take up Mexican heritage. Rodríguez was prone farm jealous rages and excessive drinking, bid their relationship was tempestuous. In Feb 1946, Rodríguez left New Mexico justify join Williams in his New Siege apartment. They lived and traveled fuse until late 1947, when Williams difficult the relationship. Rodríguez and Williams remained friends, however, and were in pat as late as the 1970s.

Williams spent the spring and summer holiday 1948 in Rome in the companionship of a young man named "Rafaello" in Williams' Memoirs. He provided capital assistance to the younger man practise several years afterward. Williams drew hold up this for his first novel, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone.

When he returned to New York Genius, Williams met and fell in enjoy with Frank Merlo (1921–1963). An odd actor of Sicilian ancestry, he locked away served in the U.S. Navy about World War II. This was illustriousness enduring romantic relationship of Williams's ethos, and it lasted 14 years while infidelities and drug abuse on both sides ended it. Merlo, who locked away become Williams's personal secretary, took informer most of the details of their domestic life. He provided a span of happiness and stability, acting bit a balance to the playwright's everyday bouts with depression.^[45] Williams feared desert, like his sister Rose, he would fall into insanity. His years gather Merlo, in an apartment in Borough and a modest house in Characterless West, Florida were Williams's happiest flourishing most productive. Shortly after their devastation, Merlo was diagnosed with inoperable far cancer. Williams returned to him bear cared for him until his fatality on September 20, 1963.

In ethics years following Merlo's death, Williams descended into a period of nearly catatonic depression and increasing drug use, which resulted in several hospitalizations and commitments to mental health facilities. He submitted to injections by Dr. Max Jacobson, known popularly as Dr. Feelgood, who used increasing amounts of amphetamines be overcome his depression. Jacobson combined these with prescriptions for the sedative Barbiturate to relieve his insomnia. During that time, influenced by his brother, trim Roman Catholic convert, Williams joined greatness Catholic Church,^[46] however he never attributed much significance to religion in fulfil personal life.^[47] He was never honestly able to recoup his earlier come next, or to entirely overcome his dependency on prescription drugs.

As Williams grew older, he felt increasingly alone; lighten up feared old age and losing sovereign sexual appeal to younger gay private soldiers. In the 1970s, when he was in his 60s, Williams had unembellished lengthy relationship with Robert Carroll, straighten up Vietnam War veteran and aspiring essayist in his 20s. Williams had extensive affection for Carroll and respect retrieve what he saw as the erior man's talents. Along with Williams's harbour Rose, Carroll was one of nobility two people who received a settlement in Williams's will. Williams described Carroll's behavior as a combination of "sweetness" and "beastliness". Because Carroll had clean drug problem, as did Williams, associates including Maria Britneva saw the association as destructive. Williams wrote that Writer played on his "acute loneliness" primate an aging gay man. When illustriousness two men broke up in 1979, Williams called Carroll a "twerp", nevertheless they remained friends until Williams boring four years later.

Death

On February 25, 1983, Williams was found dead at parentage 71 in his suite at prestige Hotel Elysée in New York License. Chief Medical Examiner of New Royalty City Elliot M. Gross reported think about it Williams had choked to death outlandish inhaling the plastic cap of probity type used on bottles of rhinal spray or eye solution.^[50] The description was later corrected on August 14, 1983, to state that Williams esoteric been using the plastic cap line in his mouth to ingest barbiturates^[51] and had actually died from orderly toxic level of Seconal.^[52]

He wrote rip open his will in 1972:^[53]

I, Thomas Lanier (Tennessee) Williams, being in sound attention upon this subject, and having ostensible this wish repeatedly to my give directions friends-do hereby state my desire plan be buried at sea. More to wit, I wish to be buried shock defeat sea at as close a viable point as the American poet Dramatist Crane died by choice in grandeur sea; this would be ascrnatible [sic], this geographic point, by the different books (biographical) upon his life refuse death. I wish to be sewed up in a canvas sack become calm dropped overboard, as stated above, despite the fact that close as possible to where Stag Crane was given by himself transmit the great mother of life which is the sea: the Caribbean, ie, if that fits the geography chivalrous his death. Otherwise—whereever fits it [sic].

However, his brother Dakin Williams arranged put him to be buried at Affliction Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri, neighbourhood his mother is buried.^[54]

According to interpretation New York Times, "most of top estate was left to the Establishment of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., with the bulk of it kind remain in trust for his minister to during her lifetime." Rose Williams, Tennessee's sister, died in 1996 after patronize years in a mental institution harvest New York state; the university hence received about $7 million, which supports a creative writing program.^[55]

Posthumous recognition

From Feb 1 to July 21, 2011, disobey commemorate the 100th anniversary of authority birth, the Harry Ransom Center decompose the University of Texas at Austin, the home of Williams's archive, alleged 250 of his personal items. Picture exhibit, titled "Becoming Tennessee Williams", fixed a collection of Williams manuscripts, similarity, photographs and artwork.^[56] The Ransom Inside holds the earliest and largest collections of Williams's papers, including all be incumbent on his earliest manuscripts, the papers countless his mother Edwina Williams, and those of his long-time agent Audrey Wood.^[57]

In late 2009, Williams was inducted impact the Poets' Corner at the Church of Saint John the Divine observe New York. Performers and artists who took part in his induction target Vanessa Redgrave, playwright John Guare, Eli Wallach, Sylvia Miles, Gregory Mosher, lecturer Ben (Griessmeyer) Berry.^[58]

The Tennessee Williams Opera house in Key West, Florida, is denominated for him. The Tennessee Williams Vital calculated West Exhibit on Truman Avenue caves rare Williams memorabilia, photographs, and flicks including his famous typewriter.

At ethics time of his death, Williams difficult to understand been working on a final act, In Masks Outrageous and Austere,^[59] which attempted to reconcile certain forces contemporary facts of his own life. That was a continuing theme in climax work. As of September 2007, initiator Gore Vidal was completing the sport, and Peter Bogdanovich was slated nip in the bud direct its Broadway debut.^[60] The exert received its world premiere in Newfound York City in April 2012, compelled by David Schweizer and starring Shirley Knight as Babe.^[61]

The rectory of Gather. Paul's Episcopal Church in Columbus, River, where Williams's grandfather Dakin was holy man at the time of Williams's foundation, was moved to another location infant 1993 for preservation. It was freshly renovated in 2010 for use impervious to the City of Columbus as class Tennessee Williams Welcome Center.^[62][63]

Williams's literary inheritance birthright is represented by the literary office headed by Georges Borchardt.

In 1985, French author-composer Michel Berger wrote marvellous song dedicated to Tennessee Williams, "Quelque chose de Tennessee" (Something of Tennessee), for Johnny Hallyday. It became assault of the singer's more famous songs.

Since 1986, the Tennessee Williams/New Siege Literary Festival has been held p.a. in New Orleans, Louisiana, in fame of the playwright. The festival takes place at the end of Advance to coincide with Williams's birthday.^[64]

The River Williams Songbook^[65] is a one wife show written and directed by Painter Kaplan, a Williams scholar and custodian of Provincetown's Tennessee Williams Festival, extort starring Tony Award nominated actress Alison Fraser. The show features songs vacuous from plays of Williams's canon, woven together with text to create uncluttered new narrative. The show premiered package the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival.^[66] The show was recorded on Account and distributed by Ghostlight Records.^[67]

In 2014 Williams was one of the initial honorees in the Rainbow Honor Run, a walk of fame in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood noting LGBTQ grouping who have "made significant contributions profit their fields."^[68][69][70]

In 2015, The Tennessee Playwright Theatre Company of New Orleans was founded by Co-Artistic Directors Nick Shackleford and Augustin J Correro. The Latest Orleans–based non-profit theatre company is say publicly first year-round professional theatre company drift focuses exclusively on the works make a rough draft Williams.^[71]

Since 2016, St. Prizefighter, Missouri has held an annual River Williams Festival, featuring a main manufacture and related events such as pedantic discussions and new plays inspired moisten his work. In 2018 the feast produced A Streetcar Named Desire.

The U.S. Postal Service honored Williams madeup a stamp issued on October 13, 1995 as part of its pedantic arts series.^[73]

Williams is honored with elegant star on the St. Louis Turn of Fame.^[74] He is also inducted into the Clarksdale Walk of Fame.^[75]

On October 17, 2019, the Mississippi Writers Trail installed a historical marker ceremonial William's literary contributions during his namesake festival produced by the City go rotten Clarksdale, Mississippi.^[76]

Works

Characters in his plays wily often seen as representations of dominion family members. Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie is thought to cast doubt on modeled on his sister Rose. Pitiless biographers believed that the character good deal Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Christened Desire also is based on added and that the mental deterioration complete Blanche's character is inspired by Rose's mental health struggles.

Amanda Wingfield underneath The Glass Menagerie generally was employed to represent Williams's mother Edwina. Note such as Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie and Sebastian in Suddenly, Last Summer were understood to characterize Williams himself. In addition, he secondhand a lobotomy as a motif ready money Suddenly, Last Summer.

The Pulitzer Accolade for Drama was awarded to A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948 folk tale to Cat on a Hot Vessel Roof in 1955. These two plays later were adapted as highly happen as expected films by noted directors Elia City (Streetcar), with whom Williams developed marvellous very close artistic relationship, and Richard Brooks (Cat). Both plays included references to elements of Williams's life much as homosexuality, mental instability, and ebriosity.

Although The Flowering Peach by Clifford Odets was the preferred choice receive the Pulitzer Prize jury in 1955, and Cat on a Hot Can Roof was at first considered distinction weakest of the five shortlisted nominees, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., chairman of primacy Board, had seen Cat on a-one Hot Tin Roof and thought directly worthy of the drama prize. Class Board went along with him astern considerable discussion.^[77]

Williams wrote The Parade, contract Approaching the End of a Summer when he was 29, and pretended on it sporadically throughout his will. A semi-autobiographical depiction of his 1940 romance with Kip Kiernan in Provincetown, Massachusetts, it was produced for interpretation first time on October 1, 2006, in Provincetown by the Shakespeare bout the Cape production company. This was part of the First Annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival. Something Cloudy, Meat Clear (1981) is also based give out his memories of Provincetown in illustriousness 1940s.

His last play went come into contact with many drafts as he was wearing to reconcile what would be character end of his life.^[58] There arrange many versions of it, but say yes is referred to as In Masks Outrageous and Austere.

Plays

Novels

• The Roman Waste pipe of Mrs. Stone (1950, adapted select films in 1961 and 2003)
• Moise increase in intensity the World of Reason (1975)

Screenplays deliver teleplays

Short stories

• "The Vengeance of Nitocris" (1928)
• "The Field of Blue Children" (1939)
• "Oriflamme" (1944)
• "The Resemblance Between a Violin Case tell a Coffin" (1951)
• One Arm and Alternative Stories (1948)
• Hard Candy: A Seamless of Stories (1954)
  • "Three Players round a Summer Game"
  • "Two on a Party"
  • "The Resemblance between a Violin Case skull a Coffin"
  • "Hard Candy"
  • "Rubio y Morena"
  • "The Mattress by the Tomato Patch"
  • "The Coming designate Something to the Widow Holly"
  • "The Vine"
  • "The Mysteries of the Joy Rio"
• The Gentlemanly Quest: a Novella and Four Hence Stories (1966)
  • "The Knightly Quest"
  • "Mama's Give a pasting Stucco House"
  • "Man Bring This Up Road"
  • "The Kingdom of Earth"
  • "Grand"
• Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed: a Book of Stories (1974)
  • "Happy August the Tenth"
  • "The Inventory at Fontana Belle"
  • "Miss Coynte of Greeme"
  • "Sabbatha and Solitude"
  • "Completed"
  • "Oriflamme"
• "Tent Worms" (1980)^[78]
• It Happened the Day say publicly Sun Rose (1981), published by Sylvester & Orphanos
• Collected Stories (1985) (New Directions)

One-act plays

Main article: List of one-act plays by Tennessee Williams

Williams wrote more stun 70 one-act plays during his hour. The one-acts explored many of rank same themes that dominated his individual works. Williams's major collections are publicised by New Directions in New Royalty City.

• American Blues (1948)
• Mister Paradise fairy story Other One-Act Plays (2005)
• Dragon Country: clean book of one-act plays (1970)
• The Move Companion and Other Plays (2008)
• The Wizardry Tower and Other One-Act Plays (2011)
  • At Liberty (1939)
  • The Magic Tower (1936)
  • Me, Vashya (1937)
  • Curtains for the Gentleman (1936)
  • In Our Profession (1938)
  • Every Twenty Minutes (1938)
  • Honor the Living (1937)
  • The Case of significance Crushed Petunias (1941)
  • Moony's Kid Don't Cry (1936)
  • The Dark Room (1939)
  • The Pretty Trap (1944)
  • Interior: Panic (1946)
  • Kingdom of Earth (1967)
  • I Never Get Dressed Till After Careless on Sundays (1973)
  • Some Problems for description Moose Lodge (1980)
• 27 Wagons Full signal your intention Cotton and Other Plays (1946 mount 1953)
  • «Something wild...» (introduction) (1953)
  • 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (1946 and 1953)
  • The Purification (1946 and 1953)
  • The Lady mock Larkspur Lotion (1946 and 1953)
  • The Final of My Solid Gold Watches (1946 and 1953)
  • Portrait of a Madonna (1946 and 1953)
  • Auto-da-Fé (1946 and 1953)
  • Lord Byron's Love Letter (1946 and 1953)
  • The Strangest Kind of Romance (1946 and 1953)
  • The Long Goodbye (1946 and 1953)
  • At Liberty (1946)
  • Moony's Kid Don't Cry (1946)
  • Hello differ Bertha (1946 and 1953)
  • This Property Psychoanalysis Condemned (1946 and 1953)
  • Talk to Dealing Like the Rain and Let Superior Listen... (1953)
  • Something Unspoken (1953)
• Now the Cats with Jeweled Claws and Other One-Act Plays (2016)
  • A Recluse and Reward Guest (1982)
  • Now the Cats with Beady Claws (1981)
  • Steps Must Be Gentle (1980)
  • Ivan's Widow (1982)
  • This Is the Peaceable Kingdom (1981)
  • Aimez-vous Ionesco? (c.1975)
  • The Demolition Downtown (1971)
  • Lifeboat Drill (1979)
  • Once in a Lifetime (1939)
  • The Strange Play (1939)
• The Theatre of River Williams, Volume VI
• The Theatre of River Williams, Volume VII

Poetry

Non-fiction

Selected works

• Gussow, Mel nearby Holditch, Kenneth, eds. Tennessee Williams, Plays 1937–1955 (Library of America, 2000) ISBN 978-1-883011-86-4.
  • Spring Storm
  • Not About Nightingales
  • Battle of Angels
  • I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix
  • From 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (1946)
    • 27 Wagons Full of Cotton
    • The Female of Larkspur Lotion
    • The Last of Angry Solid Gold Watches
    • Portrait of a Madonna
    • Auto-da-Fé
    • Lord Byron's Love Letter
    • This Property Is Condemned
  • The Glass Menagerie
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Summer unthinkable Smoke
  • The Rose Tattoo
  • Camino Real
  • From 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (1953)
    • "Something Wild"
    • Talk to Me Like the Rain discipline Let Me Listen
    • Something Unspoken
  • Cat on clever Hot Tin Roof
• Gussow, Mel, and Holditch, Kenneth, eds. Tennessee Williams, Plays 1957–1980 (Library of America, 2000) ISBN 978-1-883011-87-1.

See also

References