Tennessee Williams's the Glass Menagerie Book

Editor's Note     vii
Introduction   Harold Bloom     1
The Glass Menagerie   Nancy M. Tischler     5
Tennessee Williams, Theatre Poet in Prose   Frank Durham     23
The Glass Menagerie: "It's no tragedy, Freckles."   Thomas E. Scheye     37
The Composition of The Glass Menagerie: An Argument for Complexity   Brian Parker     43
'The Glass Menagerie' (1944)   Roger Boxill     59
"More than Just a Little Chekhovian": The Sea Gull as a Source for the Characters in The Glass Menagerie   Drewey Wayne Gunn     69
Entering The Glass Menagerie   C. W. E. Bigsby     79
"Where Memory Begins": New Texas Light-on The Glass Menagerie   Gilbert Debusscher     95
The Blue Rose of St. Louis: Laura, Romanticism, and The Glass Menagerie   Bert Cardullo     105
Tennessee Williams's Tom Wingfield and Georg Kaiser's Cashier: A Contextual Comparison   William Fordyce     117
Flying the Jolly Roger: Images of Escape and Selfhood in Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie   Lori Leathers Single     135
Chronology     153
Contributors     161
Bibliography     165
Acknowledgments     169
Index     171