SCND Flashcards
Who described Williams as “one of the most autobiographical of playwrights”?
Mel Gussow
Which critic discussed the fact that Rose’s breakdown would always haunt Williams?
Margaret Bradham Thornton
Which critic described Williams as an artistic and cultural outsider?
M. Tischler
How does Kolin describe SCND and Williams?
“A conspicuous exception to the dichotomy between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture”
Who discusses the violent process of histiography in regards to women?
Anca Vlasopolos
What does Williams say about writing ‘little people’?
“Whatever is living and feeling with intensity is not little”
Who discusses the history of the American South?
M.O. Walsh
Who believes the play is about possession?
Anca Vlasopolos
Who believes that the play implicates the viewer in the violent process of histiography rather than purging emotion?
Anca Vlasopolos
Who believes that redemption isn’t possible for modern individuals as it was for classic heroes?
Anca Vlasopolos
Who discusses the audience’s deep ambivalence about Blanche?
Anca Vlasopolos
Who discusses necessary sacrifice?
Anca Vlasopolos
Who describes Blanche’s fall as gradual?
Anca Vlasopolos
Who discusses the extreme similarities between Blanche and Stanley?
Anca Vlasopolos
Who believes that Williams uses the jungle noises to subvert storytellers and historians?
Anca Vlasopolos
Who discusses Stella as a mediator and the other characters as a chorus?
Anca Vlasopolos
Who states that Stanley is able to easily undermine Blanche’s Southern charm?
Anca Vlasopolos
Who believes that Mitch is an androgynous character?
Anca Vlasopolos
Who believes that Stanley can vanquish Blanche when he taps into the dominant discourse of patriarchy?
Anca Vlasopolos
Who states that Blanche tries to rewrite Stanley’s discourse by relegating him to pre-history?
Anca Vlasopolos
Who believes that the play is more than a critique of post-war America because of the public victimisation?
Anca Vlasopolos
Who discusses the fact that almost the whole cast are on the stage for the final scene?
Anca Vlasopolos
Who identifies the Grim Reaper as a grotesque inversion of Stella’s pregnancy?
Anca Vlasopolos
Who believes that Williams forces the audience to participate in Blanche’s mental state with the jungle noises?
Anca Vlasopolos
Who discusses the trinity of Stella, Stanley and the new baby?
Anca Vlasopolos
Who believes that Stanley’s rape is more easily forgiven than female desire?
Anca Vlasopolos
Who believes that Stanley profits because he stays within his boundaries?
Anca Vlasopolos
Who discusses the audience’s “problematic shrug”?
Anca Vlasopolos
