Tennessee Williams – Author
Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier Williams), American playwright, was the subject of Jack Fritscher’s doctoral dissertation, Love and Death in Tennessee Williams, a scholarly study of religion, sex, violence, and alienation in Williams’s plays. Fritscher met Williams once, seated beside him at the Chicago opening of The Eccentricities of a Nightingale on January 13, 1967.
Tennessee Williams: Articles, Essays, and Books
| Jack Fritscher's Doctoral at Loyola University |
| Love and Death in Tennessee Williams |
| PhD Oral Examination (Abstract) PDF |
| M.A. Orals Board Examination PDF |
| New York Art Theatre Playbill |
| We All Live on Half of Something" |
| Modern Drama |
| Some Attitudes and a Posture: Religious Ritual in Tennessee Williams" |
| Challenges in American Culture |
| "Popular Culture as Cyclic Phenomenon in the Evolution of Tennessee Williams" |
| Referenced in Academic Citations & Dissertations |
| "Out of Touch: A Study of the Literary Relationship Between the Work of D. H. Lawrence and Tennessee Williams" |
| "My Own Mind Is My Own Church" |
| "The Concept of One-ness in Tennessee Williams' Kingdom of Earth" (The Seven Descents of Myrtle) |
| "Tennessee Williams: A Casebook" |
| "A Study of Conflict in the "Undefeated" Characters in the Selected Plays of Tennessee Williams" |
| "Apollonian-Dionsyian Conflict in Three Tennessee Williams Plays" |
| "The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams" |