Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-143) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Brick Pollitt as homo ludens: "three players of a summer game" and Cat on a hot tin roof / Charles E. May -- Cat on a hot tin roof / Roger Boxill -- "Something cloudy, something clear": homophobic discourse in Tennessee Williams / John M. Clum -- "By coming suddenly into a room that I thought was empty": mapping the closet with Tennessee Williams / David Savran -- Journeys from frustation to empowerment: Cat on a hot tin roof and its debt to GarcĂa Lorca's Yerma / Christopher Brian Weimer -- Tennessee Williams's unseen characters / Susan Koprince -- "Come back to the locker room ag'in, Brick honey!" / Mark Royden Winchell -- Cat on a hot tin roof: the uneasy marriage of success and idealism / Marian Price -- Cat on a hot tin roof / Alice Griffin -- 'Echo Spring': reflecting the gaze of Narcissus in Tennessee Williams's Cat on a hot tin roof / George W. Crandell.