Tennesse Williams

Question 1

Why did he choose the name ‘Tennessee’ over ‘Thomas Lanier’?

Answer 1

Because of his family’s extensive roots in and him spending most of his youth in St. Louis, Missouri.

Question 2

Proclaim New Orleans as his “favorite city in America, perhaps in the world” where?

Answer 2

In “Williams and Mead, pg. 73)

Question 3

Streetcar was written when?

Answer 3

1945

Question 4

First premiered date

Answer 4

1947

Question 5

What is “A Streetcar named Desire” ?

Answer 5

A play that dramatises the social and economic transition between traditional Southern life and the newly industrialised South.

Christopher Bigsby “A battle between illusion and reality, tradition and progress”

Question 6

Williams explores domestic violence and sexual aggression in a way rarely seen at that time.

Answer 6

“I write out of love for the South but also out of anger at what it does to people”