Introduction / Early Williams: the making of a playwright / Entering The Glass Menagerie / Streetcar running fifty years / Camino Real: Williams's allegory about the fifties / Writing in "a place of stone": Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / Before the fall - and after: Summer and Smoke and The Night of the Iguana / Sacrificial stud and the fugitive female in Suddenly Last Summer, Orpheus Descending, and Sweet Bird of Youth

Romantic textures in Tennessee Williams's plays and short stories / Creative rewriting: European and American influences on the dramas of Tennessee Williams / Seeking direction / Hollywood in crisis: Tennessee Williams and the evolution of the adult film / Tennessee Williams: the last two decades / Words on Williams: a bibliographic essay / Strangest Kind of Romance: Tennessee Williams and his Broadway critics