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List of illustrations and acknowledgements; Notes on contributors;Chronology; Introduction Matthew C. Roudane; 1. Early Williams: the making ofa playwright Allean Hale; 2. Entering The Glass Menagerie C. W. E. Bigsby; 3.A streetcar running fifty years Felicia Hardison Londre; 4. Camino Real:Williams's allegory about the fifties Jan Balakian; 5. Writing in 'A Place ofStone': Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Albert J. Devlin; 6. Before the fall - andafter: Summer and Smoke and The Night of the Iguana Thomas P. Adler; 7. Thesacrificial stud and the fugitive female in Suddenly Last Summer, OrpheusDescending, and Sweet Bird of Youth John M. Clum; 8. Romantic textures inTennessee Williams's plays and short stories Nancy M. Tischler; 9. Seekingdirection Brenda Murphy; 10. Hollywood in crisis: Tennessee Williams and theevolution of the adult film R. Barton Palmer; 11. Tennessee Williams: thelast two decades Ruby Cohn; 12. Words on Williams: a bibliographical essayJacqueline O'Connor; 13. The Strangest Kind of Romance: Tennessee Williamsand his Broadway critics Jacqueline O'Connor; Index.