Table of Contents

Plays 1937-1955Spring Storm
Not About Nightingales
Battle of Angels
I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix

from 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (1946)
27 Wagons Full of Cotton
The Lady of Larkspur Lotion
The Last of My Solid Gold Watches
Portrait of a Madonna
Auto-da-Fé
Lord Byron's Love Letter
This Property Is Condemned

The Glass Menagerie
A Streetcar Named Desire
Summer and Smoke
The Rose Tattoo
Camino Real

from 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (1953)
"Something Wild"
Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen
Something Unspoken

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Chronology
Note on the Texts
Notes

About the Author

This volume is edited by Mel Gussow (1933–2005), who was a drama critic, a cultural writer at The New York Times, and author of several books, including Edward Albee: A Singular Journey, and by Kenneth Holditch, professor emeritus at the University of New Orleans, editor since 1989 of the Tennessee Williams Journal, and the author of In Old New Orleans.