Tennessee Williams was one of the most popular successful and most critically lauded and vilified dramatists of the 20th century. His most famous plays are examined in this text, including Suddenly Last Summer, The Glass Menagerie, and A Streetcar Named Desire. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School; preeminent literary critic of our time. Titles present the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature reflecting a variety of schools of criticism. Texts also contain critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index, and an introductory essay by Bloom.