Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)

A selective list of online literary criticism for Tennessee Williams, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Web Sites

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Literary criticism

Bjørneboe, Jens. "The Forests Behind Night of the Iguana." Contends that the fundamental theme in this play by Tennessee Williams is cruelty (1962)

Fordyce, William. "Tennessee Williams's Tom Wingfield and Georg Kaiser's Cashier: A contextual comparison," Papers on Language and Literature, Summer 1998

Haley, Darryl E. "'Certain Moral Values': A Rhetoric of Outcasts in the Plays of Tennessee Williams," a 1999 Ph.D. dissertation

Haley, Darryl E. On the influence of Hart Crane and Rainer Maria Rilke on Tennessee Williams

Haley, Darryl E. A biography of Tennessee Williams from Dr. Haley

Kolin, Philip C. "Charlotte Capers, Tennessee Williams, and the Mississippi premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire." Mississippi Quarterly, Spring 1998

Portillo, Michael. "Hothouse flowers: Tennessee Williams's deeply personal play about sex and guilt is scintillating," about Suddenly Last Summer, New Statesman, May 31, 2004 (taken offline at findarticles.com)

Introduction

A Teacher's Guide to Tennessee Williams from textbook publisher Heath

A 1997 PBS discussion on Tennessee Williams with interviewer Elizabeth Farnsworth, Williams biographer Lyle Leverich, and director Richard Seyd

A special feature on Tennessee Williams in the N`Y Times contains extensive material from articles on Williams and reviews of his plays, including an unenthusiastic 1945 review of the first production of The Glass Menagerie. Another review, "Glass Menagerie is best play of year"

A brief article on Tennessee Williams from the gay web site Lambda discusses Williams's homosexuality

A brief biography on Tennessee Williams from PBS

Tennessee Williams discusses his 1975 memoirs in a NY Times article

An interview with Tennessee Williams in 1975, when he was 61, NY Times

Tennessee Williams discusses "the declivity of my reputation" in a 1981 NY Times interview

Tennessee Williams NY Times obituary, 1983

An appreciation of Tennessee Williams and his achievement, penned immediately after his death, by Frank Rich in the NY Times, 1983

Newspaper article on Tennessee Williams' cause of death, 2/27/1983 NY Times

An appreciation of Williams and his achievement, shortly after his death, by Michiko Kakutani in the NY Times, 1983

A review of The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams: Vol. 1, 1920-1945. The first chapter is excerpted, in the NY Times

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