St Jude’s Playwright
Michael Church, 5 September 1985
The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams
by Donald Spoto.
Bodley Head, 409 pp., £12.95, May 1985,0 370 30847 6 Show More
by Donald Spoto.
Bodley Head, 409 pp., £12.95, May 1985,
Tennessee Williams on File
by Catherine Arnott.
Methuen, 80 pp., £7.95, May 1985,0 413 58550 6 Show More
by Catherine Arnott.
Methuen, 80 pp., £7.95, May 1985,
“... least twelve plays with such magnificent success. The arch-rationalist Mark Twain held Sir Walter Scott to blame for the disabling romanticism of the American South: Tennessee Williams, brought up on the Waverley novels, was a joyful victim of the disease. ‘I write out of love for the South … I think the war between romanticism and the hostility to it is ... ”