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Tennessee Williams

"Everything in his life is in his plays, and everything in his plays is in his life,"
Elia Kazan said of Tennessee Williams. Williams, who is considered to be the
greatest Southern playwright, inserted many of his own personal experiences
into his writing, because he "found no other means of expressing things that
seemed to demand expression" (Magill 1087). He stated that his primary
sources of inspiration for his works were his family, the South, and the multiple
writers he encountered in his life. Therefore, he presented American
theatergoers with unforgettable characters, an incredible vision of life in the
South, and a deeper meaning of the concept he called "poetic realism" (Classic
Notes 1). Poetic Realism exists as the repeated use of everyday objects, so
that they would produce a symbolic meaning. Often, Tennessee Williams'
writing was considered to be melodramatic and hysterical; however, it is the
haunting and powerful life experiences included in......


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