Metatheater of Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams'' characters set the stage for their own dramas. Blanche DuBois (A Streetcar Named Desire), arrived at her sister''s apartment with an entire trunk of costumes and props. Amanda Wingfield (The Glass Menagerie) directed her son on how to eat and tries to make her daughter act like a Southern Belle.

This book argues for the persistence of one metatheatrical strategy running t...