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Acknowledgments xiii Introduction Ralph F. Voss 1 1. Tennessee Williams Scholarship at the Turn of the Century George W. Crandell 8 2. The Year 1939: Becoming Tennessee Williams Albert J. Devlin 35 3. “Tiger—Tiger!”: Blanche’s Rape on Screen Nancy M. Tischler 50 4. The Escape That Failed: Tennessee and Rose Williams Michael Paller 70 5. Four Characters in Search of a Company: Williams, Pirandello, and the Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Manuscripts Jeffrey B. Loomis 91 6. The Metaphysics of Tennessee Williams Robert Siegel 111 Contents 7. The Family of Mitch: (Un)suitable Suitors in Tennessee Williams Philip C. Kolin 131 8. In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel: Breaking the Code Allean Hale 147 9. “Entitled to Write About Her Life”: Tennessee Williams and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Jackson R. Bryer 163 10. “It’s Another Elvis Sighting, and . . . My God . . . He’s with Tennessee Williams!” Barbara M. Harris 178 11. Tennessee Williams in New Orleans W. Kenneth Holditch 193 12. Tennessee Williams: The Angel and the Crocodile Dan Sullivan 206 Afterwords: A Panel Discussion Colby Kullman, Moderator 215 Contributors 241 Index 245 xii Contents ...

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