Tennessee Williams

Contains selections of Williams' most influential works including "The Glass Menagerie," "A Streetcar Named Desire," and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."

"The Rose Tattoo is one of Tennessee Williams' most beautiful and powerful plays. Set among a colony of Sicilian fisher-folk on the American Gulf Coast, it is the story of Serafina delle Rose, a woman for whom love was stronger than death."--Inside jacket.

Chronicles the unlikely yet enduring literary and personal relationship of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin. Their story provides a window into the literary history of the mid-twentieth century and reveals the struggles of a great artist, supported in his endeavors by the publisher he considered a true friend.

Beautiful Catherine Holly is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Her rich aunt tries to influence a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of truth serum, the neurosurgeon discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true and must confront the rich aunt about her own involvement in her son's violent death.

After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and her husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money whereby he sets about discovering everything else he...

The merchant of Venice: Shakespeare's comedy in which a young merchant attempts to extricate himself from an onerous contract with a vicious shylock. The millionairess: Shaw's comedy in which a wealthy, heiress seeks romance with an Egyptian doctor who only tends to the poor. Bed among the lentils: A dramatic monologue by a jaded, alcoholic wife of a country vicar. Suddenly last summer: A wealthy Southern matriarch tries to influence a young neurosurgeon...