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Drama & Plays
Seven previously unpublished stories of the Great Depression by America's poet laureate of the lost These tales were penned by one Thomas Lanier Williams of Missouri before he became a successful playwright, and yet his... See More
Literature & Fiction
"A crucible of so many elements that would later shape and characterize Williams's work." -- World Literature Today When Tennessee Williams read Spring Storm aloud to his playwriting class at the University of Iowa in 1938... See More
Drama & Plays
Social outcasts, misfit survivors, dangerous passions -- Tennessee Williams fleshed out the characters and themes that would dominate his later work in Fugitive Kind, one of his earliest plays. Fugitive Kind, one of... See More
Literature & Fiction
This early full-length play put a young Tennessee Williams' passion for social justice in the spotlight. "Haunting, searing, unforgettable" -- London Herald In early 1998, sixty years after it was written, one of Tennessee... See More
Literature & Fiction
A play produced only twice in the 1940s and now published for the first time reveals that Tennessee Williams anticipated the themes of Star Trek by decades. Sixty years ago a young Tennessee Williams wrote a play looking... See More
This early play about coal miners struggling to improve their lives helped establish a young Tennessee Williams as a powerful new voice in American theater. The first full-length play by novice playwright Thomas Lanier... See More
Literature & Fiction
Thirteen previously unpublished short plays now available for the first time. Tennessee Williams had a distinct talent for writing short plays and, not surprisingly, this remarkable new collection of never-before-published... See More
Literature & Fiction
No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if... See More
Literature & Fiction
What's not to like about Tennessee Williams's most forthright work about homosexual love, with its gay figure skaters, runaways, and sex? An erotic, sensual, and comic novel that was a generation ahead of its time, Moise... See More
Literature & Fiction
A classic play by Tennessee Williams in a definitive, author-approved edition. Reality and fantasy are interwoven with terrifying power as two actors on tour -- brother and sister -- find themselves deserted by the trope in... See More
This late play by Tennessee Williams explores the troubled relationship between F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. The late Tennessee Williams's Clothes for a Summer Hotelmade its New York debut in 1980. Here Scott and Zelda... See More
Literature & Fiction
"The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays -- like firecrackers in a rope." -- Tennessee Williams This new collection of fantastic, lesser-known one-acts contains some of Williams's most potent, comical and... See More
Literature & Fiction
In this masterful play, Tennessee Williams explores the meaning of loneliness and the need for human connection through the lens of four women and the designs and desires they harbor -- for themselves and for each other. It... See More
Short Stories
"I yearned for a bad influence and boy, was Tennessee one in the best sense of the word: joyous, alarming, sexually confusing and dangerously funny." -- John Waters "I cannot write any sort of story," said Tennessee [to... See More
Essays & Correspondence
The chronicle of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin's unlikely yet enduring literary and personal relationship. In December 1942, two guests at a Lincoln Kirstein mixer bonded over their shared love of Hart Crane's... See More
Drama & Plays
Tennessee Williams freely adapts Anton Chekhov's Russian classic "The Seagull". From the master twentieth-century playwright Tennessee Williams-an adaptation of Chekhov's The Sea Gull, never before available to the general... See More
Literature & Fiction
Now with a new introduction, the author's original Foreword and Afterword, the one-act play 10 Blocks on the Camino Real, plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar, Michael Paller. In this phantasmagorical play, the... See More
Drama & Plays
Tennessee Williams returns to a pivotal moment in his stormy youth in Something Cloudy, Something Clear, which introducer Eve Adamson calls "a delicately woven tapestry of past and present, vulnerability and toughness... See More
Literature & Fiction
The spellbinding last full-length play produced during the author's lifetime is now published for the first time. Christmas 1982: Cornelius and Bella McCorkle of Pascagoula, Mississippi, return home one midnight in a... See More
Drama & Plays
Twelve previously uncollected experimental shorter plays: The Chalky White Substance ? The Day on Which a Man Dies (An Occidental Noh Play) ? A Cavalier for Milady ? The Pronoun "I" ? The Remarkable Rooming House of Mme... See More
Literature & Fiction
Published as a trade paperback for the first time, with a new introduction by the acclaimed playwright John Patrick Shanley (Doubt) and the one-act on which The Rose Tattoo was based. The Rose Tattoo is larger than life... See More
United States
This definitive collection establishes Williams as a major American fiction writer of the twentieth century. Tennessee Williams' Collected Stories combines the four short-story volumes published during Williams' lifetime... See More
Literature & Fiction
Now with an insightful new introduction, the author's original Foreword, and the one-act play, The Enemy: Time, on which Sweet Bird of Youth was based. Tennessee Williams knew how to tell a good tale, and this steamy... See More
Literature & Fiction
The thirteen one-act plays collected in this volume include some of Tennessee Williams's finest and most powerful work. They are full of the perception of life as it is, and the passion for life as it ought to be, which... See More
Poetry
All of the author's previously published poems, including poems from the plays, are in this definitive edition. Few writers achieve success in more than one genre, and yet if Tennessee Williams had never written a single... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
Literature & Fiction
Now published for the first time as a trade paperback with a new introduction and the short story on which it was based. Williams wrote: "This is a play about love in its purest terms." It is also Williams's robust and... See More
Drama & Plays
Tennessee Williams's first novel The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams. Published in 1950, his first novel was acclaimed by Gore Vidal as "splendidly written, precise, short, complete, and fine." It... See More
Literature & FictionThis volume in the Critical Insights series brings together a variety of new and classic essays on this famous play. Original essays contain an examination the play in light of postwar American culture and censorship as well... See More
Literature & Fiction
From the renowned American playwright Tennessee Williams, a glimpse of college life on the eve of graduation. It's the last day of the academic year, and the students of a small, mid-western university are preparing for a... See More