Suddenly Last Summer As “Morality Play"
1966; University of Toronto Press; Volume: 8; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3138/md.8.4.392
ISSN1712-5286
Autores Tópico(s)Theatre and Performance Studies
ResumoA NUMBER OF CRITICS have already pointed out that the material employed in the dramas of Tennessee Williams is offensive to many otherwise broad-minded people. After all, rape, sexual perversion, and cannibalism are not the most attractive of topics even in our post-Freudian age. Comments on Williams' work have thus confined themselves, generally, to heated discussions about his right as an artist to employ such "offensive" material; and sober analyses of his plays are therefore hard to come by. Williams' most shocking drama is surely Suddenly Last Summer; considering the material with which the play concerns itself, the fact that it has become a favorite target of Williams' attackers is hardly surprising. What is surprising (or, at least, interesting) is that Suddenly Last Summer has been misread and misviewed even by those who defend Williams' right as an artist to deal with any subject he chooses.
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