Suddenly Last Summer (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Tennessee Williams
- First Published: 1958
- Type of Work: Play
- Genres: Drama, Psychological drama, Mythological literature, Expressionist literature
- Subjects: Values, Mothers, Parents and children, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Murder or homicide, South or Southerners, 1930’s, Violence, New Orleans, Hunger
- Locales: New Orleans, LA
“Suddenly last summer” is a refrain that runs through the many interrupted attempts of Catharine Holly to tell a psychologist the truth about what happened to Sebastian Venable along the harbor of an Italian resort, Cabeza de Lobo. He had been protected all of his life by his mother, and he had used her the last few years of his life to procure partners for his sexual appetite. On her part, Mrs. Venable will go to any length to preserve the reputation of her son as a poet, for to her “the work of a poet is the life of the poet” and vice versa. Together, she and Sebastian...
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