Tennessee Williams’s lyrical drama

Critics, scholars and readers alike have hailed Tennessee Williams as the greatest Southern playwright one of most distinguished dramatists in history American drama. He is indisputably renowned second half 20th century. This article endeavors to make an overview Williams’s lyrical drama, focusing on its main features such characterization, art, language, major themes represented his plays, etc. introduced innovative concept Plastic Theater into which combined all elements production- dialogue, action, setting, lighting, even props - a unified symbolic expression truth. was very prolific playwright, poet prose writer but three plays- The Glass Menagerie, experimental play; A Streetcar Named Desire, masterpiece; Cat Hot Tin Roof, popular play- entered captivated imagination theater audiences for generations.