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The Elusive Tennessee

The Elusive Tennessee by Kimball King Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire. By Philip C. Kolin. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. 222 pp. $54.95. Tennessee Williams: A Casebook. By Robert Gross. New York: Routledge, 2001. 160 pp. $75.00. The Plays in Production series of Cambridge University Press provides a great professional service by studying in detail the production history of major Western plays. No one would dispute A Streetcar Named Desire’s place among them. Philip Kolin, a noted Williams scholar, discusses the premiere of the play and its later adaptations into a film. In fact, Kolin meticulously records information of all the play’s national premieres. An- other chapter is devoted to revivals. A fine bibliography is provided and Kolin offers his own sophisticated interpretations of the play’s characters and actions. This book will become an instant resource for teachers of this American masterwork. While Kolin’s book is an invaluable record of the production history of a major play, Tennessee Williams: A Casebook by Robert Gross offers a series of perceptive essays about one of the great dramatists of the twentieth century. A plethora of books and articles on Williams focus on biograph- ical parallels of events in the playwright’s life with scenes and images http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Southern Literary Journal University of North Carolina Press

The Elusive Tennessee

King, Kimball.
The Southern Literary Journal , Volume 34 (1) – Dec 1, 2001
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University of North Carolina Press
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Copyright © 2001 Department of English of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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1534-1461

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by Kimball King Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire. By Philip C. Kolin. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. 222 pp. $54.95. Tennessee Williams: A Casebook. By Robert Gross. New York: Routledge, 2001. 160 pp. $75.00. The Plays in Production series of Cambridge University Press provides a great professional service by studying in detail the production history of major Western plays. No one would dispute A Streetcar Named Desire’s place among them. Philip Kolin, a noted Williams scholar, discusses the premiere of the play and its later adaptations into a film. In fact, Kolin meticulously records information of all the play’s national premieres. An- other chapter is devoted to revivals. A fine bibliography is provided and Kolin offers his own sophisticated interpretations of the play’s characters and actions. This book will become an instant resource for teachers of this American masterwork. While Kolin’s book is an invaluable record of the production history of a major play, Tennessee Williams: A Casebook by Robert Gross offers a series of perceptive essays about one of the great dramatists of the twentieth century. A plethora of books and articles on Williams focus on biograph- ical parallels of events in the playwright’s life with scenes and images

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