The Traveling Companion and Other Plays

The Traveling Companion and Other Plays
First edition of The Traveling Companion and Other Plays
Written byTennessee Williams[1]
Original languageEnglish
GenreDrama, LGBT literature

The Traveling Companion and Other Plays is a collection of experimental plays written by American playwright Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions and in New York City in 2008.[2] It is edited by Williams scholar Annette J. Saddik,[3] who provides the introduction.

The majority of the plays are from the last decades of Williams's life, and are markedly different from those for which he is most known, departing from Southern locales, melodrama and naturalism, and showing the influence of Noh theatre and the Theatre of the Absurd. The plays have never before been collected and some are previously unpublished.

Plays

  • The Chalky White Substance[4]
  • The Day on Which a Man Dies (An Occidental Noh Play)[5]
  • A Cavalier for Milady[6]
  • The Pronoun "I"[7]
  • The Remarkable Rooming-House of Mme. Le Monde[8]
  • Kirche, Kueche, Kinder (An Outrage for the Stage)[9]
  • Green Eyes[10]
  • The Parade, or Approaching the End of a Summer
  • The One Exception
  • Sunburst
  • Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis?
  • The Traveling Companion

See also

References

  1. ^ Tennessee Williams (2008). The Traveling Companion and Other Plays. New Directions Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8112-1708-8.
  2. ^ James Laughlin; Tennessee Williams (13 March 2018). The Luck of Friendship: The Letters of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin. W. W. Norton. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-0-393-65274-1.
  3. ^ Annette J. Saddik (26 January 2015). Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess: The Strange, the Crazed, the Queer. Cambridge University Press. pp. 171–. ISBN 978-1-316-24068-7.
  4. ^ Tennessee Williams (2011). The Magic Tower and Other One-act Plays. New Directions Publishing. pp. 3–. ISBN 978-0-8112-1920-4.
  5. ^ Tennessee Williams (2008). A House Not Meant to Stand: A Gothic Comedy. New Directions Publishing. pp. 2–. ISBN 978-0-8112-1709-5.
  6. ^ Tennessee Williams (2008). Camino Real. New Directions Publishing. pp. 4–. ISBN 978-0-8112-1806-1.
  7. ^ Annette J. Saddik (26 January 2015). Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess. Cambridge University Press. pp. 171–. ISBN 978-1-107-07668-6.
  8. ^ Annette J. Saddik (26 January 2015). Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess. Cambridge University Press. pp. 6–. ISBN 978-1-107-07668-6.
  9. ^ Tennessee Williams (17 October 2008). Sweet Bird of Youth. New Directions. pp. 3–. ISBN 978-0-8112-2632-5.
  10. ^ Tennessee Williams (2008). A House Not Meant to Stand: A Gothic Comedy. New Directions Publishing. pp. 2–. ISBN 978-0-8112-1709-5.

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