''The Traveling Companion and Other Plays'' is a collection of experimental plays written by American playwright
Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the thre ...
and published by
New Directions and in
New York City
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in 2008.
It is edited by Williams scholar
Annette J. Saddik, who provides the introduction.
The majority of the plays are from the last decades of Williams's life, and are markedly different from those for which he is most known, departing from Southern locales, melodrama and naturalism, and showing the influence of
Noh theatre and the
Theatre of the Absurd
The Theatre of the Absurd (french: théâtre de l'absurde ) is a post–World War II designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s. It is also a term for the style of ...
. The plays have never before been collected and some are previously unpublished.
Plays
* ''The Chalky White Substance''
* ''The Day on Which a Man Dies (An Occidental Noh Play)''
* ''A Cavalier for Milady''
* ''The Pronoun "I"''
* ''The Remarkable Rooming-House of Mme. Le Monde''
* ''Kirche, Kueche, Kinder (An Outrage for the Stage)''
* ''Green Eyes''
* ''The Parade, or Approaching the End of a Summer''
* ''The One Exception''
* ''Sunburst''
* ''
Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis?''
* ''The Traveling Companion''
See also
*
List of one-act plays by Tennessee Williams
References
Extended reading
New Directions pageNew Directions Publishing Corporation
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Plays by Tennessee Williams
2008 anthologies
Books of plays
New Directions Publishing books