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Bissiri, Amadou. "The Artist-Figure in Tennessee Williams' Later Plays: A Contextual Approach," American Studies Program, Boston University, December 1995.
In Tennessee Williams’s later plays a remarkable shift occurs in his sense of reality. In his earlier plays, social and political forces impede life and the artist-protagonist in particular, whereas his later artist-figure faces the forces of the immediate artistic environment itself. The artist responds aesthetically and imaginatively to the forces—among which includes him or herself—of the artistic field. Williams’s later career seems to validate this theory. I study his plays written or produced between 1960 and 1983—the years of his “decline.” I first define the theatrical context of Williams’s practice, then I study the dramatic realization of the author’s self-portrayal.
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