The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: Battle of Angels, The Glass Menagerie , A Streetcar Named Desire

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams brings together in a matching format the plays of one of America’s most influential and innovative dramatists. Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes the original cast listings and production notes.

Volume 1 leads with Battle of Angels Williams’s first produced play (1940), and early version of Orpheus Descending. this is followed by the texts of his first great popular successes: The Glass menagerie (1945) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), which established Williams’s reputations once and for all as a genius of the modern American theatre.