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Thomas Lanier “Tennessee” Williams is acknowledged as one of the greatest American dramatists of the post-World War II era. His stature is based almost entirely upon works he completed during the first half of his career. William’s lyrical style and his thematic concerns are distinctive in American theatre. The majority ....

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.... rapes Blanche, causing her “to lose what little is left of her sanity” (Rasky, 124). At the end, Blanche is committed to a sanitarium. William’s once told an interviewer, “My work is emotionally autobiographical. It has no relationship to the actual events of my life, but it reflects the emotional currents of my life” (Devlin, 75). Critics have made much use of William’s family background as a means of analyzing his plays. William’s father, Cornelius, was a businessman from a prominent Tennessee family who ....