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The Collected Plays of Tennessee Williams (boxed set)

The Glass Menagerie • A Streetcar Named Desire • The Rose Tattoo • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof • Suddenly Last Summer • Sweet Bird of Youth • The Night of the Iguana • 25 other plays More

Edited by Kenneth Holditch and Mel Gussow

“These two volumes constitute all that matter, the works of a master of his craft, with all the author’s introductions, notes, and pertinent essays.”—The Los Angeles Times Book Review

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In celebration of the Tennessee Williams centennial in 2011, The Library of America presents its acclaimed two-volume edition in a collector’s boxed set. Gathering thirty-two works written from the 1930s to the 1980s, this collection contains all the essential dramatic works of the playwright who transformed the American stage. The first volume opens with the rediscovered early plays, Spring Storm and Not About Nightingales, and contains such classics as The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Rose Tattoo, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, as well as a selection of one–acts. The second volume includes Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer, Sweet Bird of Youth, Period of Adjustment, The Night of the Iguana, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Out Cry, and A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur.

Both volumes were edited by Mel Gussow (1933–2005), who was a drama critic, a cultural writer at the New York Times, and author of several books including Edward Albee: A Singular Journey, and by Kenneth Holditch, professor emeritus at the University of New Orleans, editor since 1989 of the Tennessee Williams Journal, and the author of In Old New Orleans.

Each Library of America series volume is printed on acid-free paper and features Smyth-sewn binding, a full cloth cover, and a ribbon marker.

Tennessee Williams: Plays 1937–1955 is kept in print by a gift from Richard Poirier to the Guardians of American Letters Fund, made in memory of Richard Santino.
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Spring Storm

Not About Nightingales

Battle of Angels

I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix

From 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (1946)
- 27 Wagons Full of Cotton
- The Lady of Larkspur Lotion
- The Last of My Solid Gold Watches
- Portrait of a Madonna
- Auto-da-Fé
- Lord Byron’s Love Letter
- This Property Is Condemned
The Glass Menagerie

A Streetcar Named Desire

Summer and Smoke

The Rose Tattoo

Camino Real

From 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (1953)
- “Something Wild”
- Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen
- Something Unspoken
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Orpheus Descending

Suddenly Last Summer

Sweet Bird of Youth

Period of Adjustment

The Night of the Iguana

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore

The Mutilated

Kingdom of Earth (The Seven Descents of Myrtle)

Small Craft Warnings

Out Cry

Vieux Carré

A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

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