Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Summary

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams's third significant play (following The Glass Menagerie [1944] and A Streetcar Named Desire [1947]), was a huge commercial success, running for 694 performances on Broadway. It won Williams his third New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and his second Pulitzer Prize (his first being for Streetcar). Elia Kazan produced and directed the play in 1955 at the Morosco Theatre, after asking Williams to revise the third act to improve...

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Tennessee Williams Biographies (4)

Tennessee Williams

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Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), dramatist and fiction writer, was one of America's major mid-20th-century playwrights.Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams in Columbus, Mississippi, on Ma... Read more

Tennessee Williams

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The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Suddenly Last Summer: these plays are considered among the classics of twentieth-century American theatre. Their author, Tenne... Read more

Tennessee Williams

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Tennessee Williams's playwriting career, already spanning more than four decades, has been marked by the highest acclaim, as well as the kind of critical controversy that is generated only by one whos... Read more

Tennessee Williams

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Biography EssayTennessee Williams's playwriting career spanned more than four decades and was marked by the highest acclaim, as well as the kind of critical controversy that is generated only by one w... Read more

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Critical Review by William Becker

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Critical Essay by Susan Neal Mayberry

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My Opinions of "Cat on a Hot, Tin Roof"

1,073 words, approx. 4 pages

Cat on a Hot, Tin Roof, a 158-page book, by Tennessee Williams is the subject of interest right now. Although Williams published it in 1955, it is still a book of everlasting importance to... Read more

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Analyzing and Comparing the Two Endings

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In the play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams, the author creates two renditions of the plays ending in order to have a different affect on the audience and to alter the meaning of the play... Read more

Relationships in `Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'?

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From Brick's shocking revelation to Big Daddy in Act 2 of `Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' that it was his disgust with "mendacity" that drove him to alcoholism, the overall theme of mendacity in the play beco... Read more

Lies and Mendacity in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"

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Discuss the roles of "mendacity" or various characters' crutches in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Lies and Mendacity run rampant in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. They help keep the play going and keep it interesti... Read more

The Role of Brick in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"

2,049 words, approx. 7 pages

Brick is the most silent of all the significant characters, although when he speaks, his words have more content than those of others. Big Daddy, in his onstage conversation, or argument, with Brick h... Read more

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