Five O'Clock Angel
by Tennessee Williams
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See Also
- Tennessee Williams (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
- Tennessee Williams (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
- Tennessee Williams (Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition)
- Tennessee Williams (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
- Tennessee Williams (Identities & Issues in Literature)
- Tennessee Williams (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Tennessee Williams
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Letters
- Time of Work: 1948-1982
- Setting: Primarily the United States, England, and Italy
- Genres: Nonfiction, Letters
- Subjects: Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Autobiography, Friendship, God, Nightmares, Alcohol, Sisters, Drugs, Depression, mental, Shakespeare, William, or Shakespearean plays, Paranoia, Angels, Insomnia, Plays or playwrights
- Locales: United States, England, Italy
Although Tennessee Williams—arguably the most enduring American dramatist of the post-World War II generation—died in 1983, Five O’Clock Angel is only the second collection of his correspondence to appear. Like the first, Tennessee Williams’ Letters to Donald Windham, 1940-1965 (1977), it brings together letters addressed almost exclusively to one person: Maria Britneva, the Lady St. Just and executrix of Williams’ estate. In the opening words of his preface to this volume, Elia Kazan, the famous director of the film version of A Streetcar Named...
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