Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Tennessee William's second Pulitzer prize-winning play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, confronts homosexuality, father/son relationships, greed, manipulation, aging, and death. Study the play that has been referred to as brutally honest. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts presents critical essays that reflect a variety of schools of criticism on the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature. Each volume also contains an introductory essay by Harold Bloom, critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index.