Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess: The Strange, the Crazed, the Queer

ISBN: 9781107433908 出版年：2015 页码：194 Annette J Saddik Cambridge University Press

Introduction: 'sicker than necessary': Tennessee Williams' theatre of excess 1. 'Drowned in Rabelaisian laughter': Germans as grotesque comic figures in Williams' plays of the 1960s and '70s 2. 'Benevolent anarchy': Williams' late plays and the theater of cruelty 3. 'Writing calls for discipline!': chaos, creativity, and madness in Clothes for a Summer Hotel 4. 'Act naturally': embracing the monstrous woman in The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, The Mutilated, and The Pronoun 'I' 5. 'There's something not natural here': grotesque ambiguities in Kingdom of Earth, A Cavalier for Milady and A House Not Meant to Stand 6. 'All drama is about being extreme': 'in-yer-face' sex, war, and violence Conclusion: 'the only thing to do is laugh'.