The Night of the Iguana (Masterplots II: Drama)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Lanier Williams
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Work: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1940
- Setting: Mexico
- Principal Characters: Maxine Faulk, T. Lawrence Shannon, Hannah Jelkes, Jonathan Coffin
- Genres: Drama, Psychological drama
- Subjects: Values, Self-discovery, Sex or sexuality, 1940’s, Guilt, Ministry or ministers, Mexico or Mexicans, Tourist trade, Rope
- Locales: Mexico
The Play
When the curtain rises for act 1 of The Night of the Iguana, the audience sees the broad verandah of the rustic Costa Verde Hotel in the midst of a tropical jungle. The midday is clear and sultry. Down the hill on which the hotel is situated can be heard the excited voices of numerous women, and it is this disturbance that brings a stout, swarthy woman around the turn of the verandah and into the audience’s direct view. She looks down the hill a moment and suddenly recognizes one of the people, a man; she laughs and calls his name—Shannon. The woman is...
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