Two recent volumes of essays, Magical Muse: Millennial Essays on Tennessee Williams and The Undiscovered Country: The Later Plays of Tennessee Williams, attest to ongoing interest in both the dramatic works and the biography of one of America's most significant playwrights. Building in part on new productions and the publication of previously inaccessible texts and letters in the past few years, the collections attempt to add to the available body of knowledge, provide new interpretations of individual plays, and offer a reassessment of Williams's work, especially the late dramas.Theatre Journal |An arrogant academic skeptical of all press blurbs, I must confess that the unique and engaging collection enticement for this volume pre-empted my own lofty pronouncement. Over- and mis-used though the first adjective may be, there is indeed something of the unique here: perhaps the serendipitous yet impress range of essays and authors, perhaps their suspect (again to an academic) yet compelling readability, perhaps the casual yet substantive tone of the afterword. Comparative Drama
|""Anyone interested in American literature, American drama, and modern theatre will be attracted to this collection."" Matthew Roudane, editor of the Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams
