Includes bibliographical references (p. [193] -204) and index.

Chronology / Robert F. Gross -- Introduction / Robert F. Gross -- We all have to paint our nudes: the iconography of sexual longing in Spring storm / Lauren Friesen -- "Stop! I'm a family man! I've got a daughter! A little - girrrrl!" Prefiguring the patriarch in Not about nightingales / Thomas Gregory Carpenter -- "That quiet little play": bourgeois tragedy, female impersonation, and a portrait of the artist in The glass menagerie / Stephanie B. Hammer -- Two transient plays: A streetcar named desire and Camino real / Frank Bradley -- On The rose tattoo / John L. Gronbeck-Tedesco -- The politics of sexual ambiguity in Sweet bird of youth / Ann Wilson -- Tracing lines of flight in Summer and smoke and The milk train doesn't stop here anymore / Robert F. Gross -- The hungry women of Tennessee Williams's fiction / Michael R. Schiavi -- "Le jeu suprمeme": some Mallarmean echoes in Tennessee Williams's Out cry / Kalliopi Nikolopoulou -- Memories and muses: Vieux carré and Something cloudy, something clear / Bruce J. Mann -- Collapsing resurrection mythologies: theatricalist discourses of fire and ash in Clothes for a summer hotel / Linda Dorff -- "Nothing unspoken": The notebook of Trigorin and The seagull / Rhonda Blair.

All Ages.

MSF FY03