Description: One of America's greatest living playwrights, as well as a friend and colleague of Williams, Albee has written a concise introduction to the play from a playwright's perspective, examining the candor, sensuality, power, and impact of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," then and now.
Brief description:
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was America's most influential playwright. Readers have devoured his poetry, essays, short stories, and letters, as well as his fantastic late plays, his remarkable corpus of one-acts, and his greatest plays--The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Night of the Iguana, The Rose Tattoo, Suddenly Last Summer, and Camino Real. Williams is a cornerstone of New Directions--we publish everything he wrote. He is also our single bestselling author.
Review Quotes: Tennessee Williams never wrote a more explosive play than Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.--Howard Kissel "The Daily News"