How Did Tennessee Williams Influence American Theatre

Tennessee Williams has been criticized for not dealing with contemporary social problems in his plays. In The Night of the Iguana Tennessee Williams suggest time and repeated by contributing the use of the German reports about the Battle of Britain, is that the source of social problems may be found in the individual’s heart and psyche.

After the post-World War II era, Tennessee Williams was recognized as one of the greatest American dramatists. Tennessee Williams stature was almost primarily focused around the works that he has completed during the first half of his career. He earned the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for The Night of the Iguana in 1961. Tennessee’s earlier works were more successful than his later plays in his career which was considered by critics to be much derived of. Tennessee Williams has a lyrical style of writing. In the American theater, Tennessee’s thematic concerns and lyrical style of writing is very idiosyncratic. The majority if his work came roughly entirely from his inner personal life and was little influenced by the other dramatics and/or by the contemporary events during the time period. One critic noted, “Williams has remained aloof from trends in American drama, continuing to create plays out the same basic neurotic conflicts in his own personality.”

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The women Tennessee Williams' introduce are a fragile assortment and who are easily look down on and easily damaged. Just a few characters in the play are extremely knowledgeable in lacking judgment like Maxine is in The Night at the Iguana or Alma at the end of Summer and Smoke. Just a few characters are very recognizably human like Alma Winemiller in the begging of Summer and Smoke, whose particular wrongheadedness and vulnerability are as touching as a combination as the playwright that has ever been