

At a table for two Sat forget-me-not-girls Waiting for a dance, Sipping Moon Lake water laced with absinthe, Eccentricities of nightingales. Goforth Escorted by double dildoes Chris and Chance. Catharine entertained royalty and wealth: The Princess Kosmonopolis and Mrs. Several gnädiges fräuleins fanned themselves Like Sybil with the eyes of a phoenix From the Garden District. Around the patio he hung Colored lights and Chinese lanterns Pulsating against dancers’ and dreamers’ bodies Fresh from the Paradise Dance Hall. No performance may be given unless a licence has been obtained.ĭedication For my grandchildren: Alexandra Elizabeth Voss Kyler Mathias Voss Zachary Malone VossĪ Party at Tennessee’s It was a blues trumpet hot night in the Quarter When the old white-plumed bird Threw a party for friends As close to himself As Dumaine is to Toulouse. All rights whatsoever in this play are strictly reserved and application for performance etc., must be made before rehearsal to Casarotto Ramsay & Associates Ltd., National House, 60–66 Wardour Street, London W1V 4ND. The following publisher has generously given permission to use extended quotations from the play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (© 1954, 55 renewed 1982, 1983 The University of the South unpublished material © 2000 The University of the South published by New Directions, reprinted by permission of The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee). PS3545.I5365 Z756 2002 812′.54-dc21 2001005097 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data available Permission for the use of the cover photo has been generously given by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Williams, Tennessee, 1911–1983-Criticism and interpretation. Includes bibliographical references and index. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Magical muse : millennial essays on Tennessee Williams / edited by Ralph F.

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