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Who described Williams as “one of the most autobiographical of playwrights”?

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Mel Gussow

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Which critic discussed the fact that Rose’s breakdown would always haunt Williams?

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Margaret Bradham Thornton

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Which critic described Williams as an artistic and cultural outsider?

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M. Tischler

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How does Kolin describe SCND and Williams?

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“A conspicuous exception to the dichotomy between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture”

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Who discusses the violent process of histiography in regards to women?

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Anca Vlasopolos

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What does Williams say about writing ‘little people’?

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“Whatever is living and feeling with intensity is not little”

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Who discusses the history of the American South?

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M.O. Walsh

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Who believes the play is about possession?

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Anca Vlasopolos

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Who believes that the play implicates the viewer in the violent process of histiography rather than purging emotion?

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Anca Vlasopolos

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Who believes that redemption isn’t possible for modern individuals as it was for classic heroes?

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Anca Vlasopolos

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Who discusses the audience’s deep ambivalence about Blanche?

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Anca Vlasopolos

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Who discusses necessary sacrifice?

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Anca Vlasopolos

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Who describes Blanche’s fall as gradual?

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Anca Vlasopolos

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Who discusses the extreme similarities between Blanche and Stanley?

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Anca Vlasopolos

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Who believes that Williams uses the jungle noises to subvert storytellers and historians?

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Anca Vlasopolos

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Who discusses Stella as a mediator and the other characters as a chorus?

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Anca Vlasopolos

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Who states that Stanley is able to easily undermine Blanche’s Southern charm?

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Anca Vlasopolos

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Who believes that Mitch is an androgynous character?

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Anca Vlasopolos

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Who believes that Stanley can vanquish Blanche when he taps into the dominant discourse of patriarchy?

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Anca Vlasopolos

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Who states that Blanche tries to rewrite Stanley’s discourse by relegating him to pre-history?

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Anca Vlasopolos

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Who believes that the play is more than a critique of post-war America because of the public victimisation?

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Anca Vlasopolos

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Who discusses the fact that almost the whole cast are on the stage for the final scene?

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Anca Vlasopolos

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Who identifies the Grim Reaper as a grotesque inversion of Stella’s pregnancy?

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Anca Vlasopolos

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Who believes that Williams forces the audience to participate in Blanche’s mental state with the jungle noises?

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Anca Vlasopolos

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Who discusses the trinity of Stella, Stanley and the new baby?

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Anca Vlasopolos

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Who believes that Stanley’s rape is more easily forgiven than female desire?

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Anca Vlasopolos

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Who believes that Stanley profits because he stays within his boundaries?

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Anca Vlasopolos

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Who discusses the audience’s “problematic shrug”?

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Anca Vlasopolos

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