Part one of term paper
Thesis: The outcasts in Tennessee Williams's major plays suffer, not because of the acts or situations which make them outcasts but because of the destructive effect of conventional morality upon them. More than a half century has passed since critics and theater-goers recognized Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) as an important--perhaps the mo ...

Part two of term paper
... to information about this playwright that has, heretofore, been unavailable to scholars‹an influx of so much new information that a reexamination of Williams's work is not only possible, but necessary. My dissertation will reexamine Williams's work in light of his claim that "plays in the tragic tradition offer us a view of certain moral values in violent juxtaposition" (The Rose Tattoo 151). Williams's plays outline a struggle between the moral values of non-conformists, who are outcas ...