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Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess: The Strange, the Crazed, the Queer Saddik, Annette J. (City University of New York)
Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess: The Strange, the Crazed, the Queer
Saddik, Annette J. (City University of New York)
Saddik explores Williams' later plays (1961–82) in the context of what she terms a 'theatre of excess', which seeks liberation through exaggeration, chaos, ambiguity, and laughter. Grounding the plays in the carnivalesque, the grotesque, and psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer theory, Saddik analyzes recent productions that successfully captured the playwright's late aesthetic.
208 pages, 5 b/w illus.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 26, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9781107076686 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 194 |
| Dimensions | 154 × 236 × 13 mm · 408 g |
| Language | English |