By Tennessee Williams (author) Part of the Student Editions series
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In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a Southern family meet to celebrate 'Big Daddy' Pollitt's 65th birthday. But as the party unfolds, the facade of a happy family gathering is fractured by sexual frustration, repressed love and greed in the light of their father's impending death.
This Methuen Student Edition de-centres expectations in an exemplary way, revivifies the play’s familiarity, and offers fresh perspectives on the play almost 70 years on. This edition includes a commentary by Benjamin Hudson, which explores the major themes of the play, including illness and mortality; white supremacy through the plantation setting; mendacity and 'fake news'; alcoholism and addiction; as well as sexuality, womanhood and mid-century notions of masculinity. It draws attention to the context of the play, including the cultural, social and political landscape of the Mississippi Delta and St. Louis; the first-hand witnessing of Black life in the South; homosexuality and outsider sympathy; and American conservatism and the idealised 1950s family.
It also delves into recent productions and adaptations of the play, including the Bollywood and Antoine Fuqua film adaptations.
Williams is one of the most popular modern dramatists at A-level and this play is a set text on 2 A-level specifications (AQA English Literature and Eduqas English Language and Literature).
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‘Williams’s favourite among his plays, [ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ] is perhaps his most impassioned and articulate statement on human isolation, the wrenching problems of communication between people and the ways in which death defines life.’ New York Times
Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier Williams; 1911-83) was a US playwright, whose controversial plays dealt with themes of repressed sexuality and family conflict. Williams was the most popular playwright in America between 1945 and 1960, winning the Pulitzer Prize twice and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award four times.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was written by Tennessee Williams and published by Methuen Drama an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof has 182 pages
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