Criticism

Bruhm, Steven. "Blackmailed by Sex: Tennessee Williams and the Economics of Desire." Modern Drama 34, No. 4 (December 1991): 528-37.

Discusses the interplay of homosexuality, consumerism, and political power in Suddenly Last Summer.

Colin, Philip C., editor. Confronting Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire: Essays in Cultural Pluralism. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993, 255 p.

Collection of essays written by various scholars on social, cultural, and political aspects of A Streetcar Named Desire.

Hulley, Kathleen. "The Fate of the Symbolic in A Streetcar Named Desire." In Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, edited by Harold Bloom, pp. 111-22. New York: Chelsea House, 1988.

Examines Williams's presentation of symbolic reality in A Streetcar Named Desire, particularly in terms of social control and the repression of desire.

King, Kimball. "Tennessee Williams: A Southern Writer." Mississippi Quarterly 48, No. 4 (Fall 1995): 627-47.

Examines Williams's implicit and explicit views about the American South and the influence of the Southern literary tradition on his work.

Price, Marian. "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: The Uneasy Marriage of Success and Idealism." Modern Drama 38, No. 3 (Fall 1995): 324-35.

Discusses the creation and production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as a significant turning point in Williams's career whereby he chose popular success over purely artistic concerns.

Sofer, Andrew. "Self-Consuming Artifacts: Power, Performance and the Body in Tennessee Williams's Suddenly Last Summer." Modern Drama 38, No. 3 (Fall 1995): 336-47.

Explores the anti-realistic structure, presentation, and theatrical rhetoric of Suddenly Last Summer.

Wilhelmi, Nancy O. "The Language of Power and Powerlessness: Verbal Combat in the Plays of Tennessee Williams." In The Text Beyond: Essays in Literary Linguistics, edited by Cynthia Goldin Bernstein, pp. 217-26. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1994.

Provides analysis of antagonistic male-female dialogue in A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.