''Auto-da-Fé'' is a one-act 1941 play by

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 ...

. The plot concerns a young postal worker, Eloi, whose sexuality is repressed by a rigidly moralistic mother.Kate Thomas Postal Pleasures: Sex, Scandal, and Victorian Letters 2011 p.65 "A later, American, and anxious example of the relation between the postal functionary and the homosexual can be found in Tennessee Williams's 1941 play ''Auto-da-Fé''. The protagonist, a young postal worker called Eloi, obtains a “lewd photograph” by intercepting mail sent from a university student to an antique dealer in New Orleans. Eloi decides to visit the student to warn him about sending such materials ..."

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1941 plays Plays by Tennessee Williams {{1940s-play-stub