Tennessee Williams's "Serious Comedy": Problems of Genre and Sexuality in (and After) Period of Adjustment.

The article focuses on Tennessee Williams' play "Period of Adjustment," with special attention to John Simon's comments whose astuteness and intolerance hints at what Williams was trying to do and the resistance he faced in trying to do it. Apologists of the play found that Williams wrote a comedy a...

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Publicado en:Philological Quarterly Vol. 91; no. 1; pp. 97 - 120
Autor principal: PETTIT, ALEXANDER
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: Department of English, University of Iowa Winter2012
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