Tennessee Williams: Plays 1957-1980 (Library of America)
by Tennessee Williams
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Author: Tennessee WilliamsEditor: Mel Gussow
Editor: Kenneth Holditch
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-10-01
ISBN: 1883011876
Number of pages: 975
Publisher: Library of America
Book Reviews of Tennessee Williams: Plays 1957-1980 (Library of America)
Book Review: Overloaded
Summary: 3 Stars
My review refers to the two Ten Williams volumes of the LoA.
I love the LoA. The books give me the supreme pleasure in reading. They are so beautifully printed on optimal paper in an optimal size, that I sometimes read stuff that is not worth reading.
I have read '10' for two reasons: 1. because I had bought the LoA, and 2. because I had read a lot about the 'glorious bird' in Gore Vidal's 2 volume memoirs. And then, of course, I had seen the Glass Menagerie on Stage and the Cat on the Hot Tin Roof in the movies. Can't remember what else I might have seen before I read this. I saw Suddenly Last Summer only after I read it. I never saw A Streetcar or the Iguana. Pity.
Let me say straightforward, that I love half a dozen to maximum 10 of TW's plays. They are pulp material, they are trash, they are melodrama, and they are true, and gripping, and honest, and vulgar...
And they are great.
But the early plays are plain nothing, while the last few ones are abominable.
It is impossible to draw a strict line when he started to write readable stuff and when he declined so badly that he stopped doing that. But for me it is clear: his early attempts are trash, and so are his last.
My conclusion: the LoA would have done better to restrict themselves to one volume and then focus on the main phase.
If they want to re-issue, I can offer advice as to which plays to include and which ones not.
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