#Night of the iguana book plus#

The volume contains chapters devoted to particular works or clusters of works, and each is written by an expert contributor. This reference book offers a thorough review of the vast body of research on his works, along with a history of performance. But in a career that spanned almost five decades, he also produced two collections of poetry, two novels, four collections of stories, and scores of essays. If Williams is not the most important American playwright, he is surely one of two or three of the most celebrated, rivaled only by Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller. The plays of Tennessee Williams are some of the greatest triumphs of the American theatre. Lawrence Shannon, from The Night of the Iguana вЂњIвЂ™m tired of conducting services in praise and worship of a senile delinquent-yeah, thatвЂ™s what I said, I shouted! All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent and, by God, I will not and cannot continue to conduct services in praise and worship of thisвЂ¦thisвЂ¦this angry, petulant old man.вЂќ -The Rev.

#Night of the iguana book plus#

This is the first trade paperback edition of The Night of the Iguana and comes with an Introduction by award-winning playwright Doug Wright, the authorвЂ™s original Foreword, the short story вЂњThe Night of the IguanaвЂќ which was the germ for the play, plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar, Kenneth Holditch. Shannon, his tour group of ladies from a West Texas womenвЂ™s college, the self-described New England spinster Hannah Jelkes and her ninety-seven-year-old grandfather, Jonathan Coffin (вЂњthe worldвЂ™s oldest living and practicing poetвЂќ), a family of grotesque Nazi vacationers, and an iguana tied by its throat to the veranda, all find themselves assembled for a rainy and turbulent night. The earthy widow Maxine Faulk is proprietress of a rundown hotel at the edge of a Mexican cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean where the defrocked Rev. Williams wrote: вЂњThis is a play about love in its purest terms.вЂќ It is also WilliamsвЂ™s robust and persuasive plea for endurance and resistance in the face of human suffering. Now published for the first time as a trade paperback with a new introduction and the short story on which it was based.