J. P. Farrelly

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Tennessee Williams: Person, Poet, and Playwright
 
 

  More on Tennessee Williams
 
 

Texts:

TW, The Glass Menagerie   

TW, Four Plays, NAL

TW, Three by Tennessee, NAL

TW, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, NAL
 
TW, A Streetcar Named Desire, NAL
 
 

Plays Covered:

The Glass Menagerie (GM)

Summer and Smoke (SS)

Suddenly Last Summer (SLS)

Orpheus Descending (OD)

A Streetcar Named Desire (SND)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (CHTR)

The Rose Tattoo (RT)

Sweet Bird of Youth (SY)

Night of the Iguana (NI)
 
 

Course Description:

This course will focus on the major plays of Tennessee Williams from The Glass Menagerie to Night of the Iguana. Students will trace the playwright's development as a dramatist and will assess his view of the human condition. Plays will be grouped together to represent particular phases Williams went through in creating his dramatis personae.
 
 

Evaluation Procedures:

All students: Three quizzes; two short papers; class participation.

Graduate students only: Annotated bibliography of reviews of one play.
 
 

SYLLABUS

1/6 Prologue, video GM

1/13 GM

1/20 MLK Day: No Class

THURSDAY 1/23 SS

1/27 SS, Introduce SLS

2/3   SLS
 
2/10 Quiz 1, Introduce OD

2/17 OD, Introduce SND

2/24 SND, Introduce RT

__________________________revised March 3

3/3   SND
        
3/10 SND film
        Paper No. 1 is due.

3/17 SPRING BREAK: No Class.

3/24 CHTR

3/31 Quiz 2, Introduce SBY

4/7   SBY, Introduce NI

4/14  NI
         Paper No. 2 is due.

4/21  Easter Monday: No class

4/28  Take-home Final: Quiz III due in HM 211 by 4:30 p.m.

Graduate Students: Annotated bibliographies are due one week prior to class discussion of a particular play.