Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams, New Edition (Modern Critical Interpretations)

Tennessee Williams's second Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' confronts homosexuality, father-and-son relationships, greed, manipulation, aging, and death. It is considered today with 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'The Glass Menagerie' as among his finest works for the stage. In this new offering in the Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations series, Harold Bloom offers his critical eye to the characters of Brick, Big Daddy, and the deceptive Maggie the Cat, presented here with a bibliography, a chronology of Williams's life, and a handy index.

CONTENTS

Editor's Note
Introduction (Harold Bloom)
The South, Tragedy, and Comedy in Tennessee Williams’s 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' (M. Thomas Inge)
The Hetairas (Maggie, Myrtle, Blanche) (Gulshan Rai Kataria)
Tennessee Williams and the Politics of the Closet (Robert J. Corber)
The Truth That Must Be Told: Gay Subjectivity, Homophobia, and Social History in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' (Dean Shackelford)
Elia Kazan and Richard Brooks Do Tennessee Williams: Melodramatizing 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' on Stage and Screen (R. Barton Palmer)
“Make the Lie True”: The Tragic Family in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' and 'King Lear' (David A. Davis)
Four Characters in Search of a Company: Williams, Pirandello, and the 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ' Manuscripts (Jeffrey B. Loomis)
Cat and the Grotesque in the Cold War (Bruce McConachie)
'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' (William Mark Poteet)
Chronology
Contributors
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index