The Night of the Iguana

Tennessee Williams

The Night of the Iguana

Theater by Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams wrote: “This is a play about love in its purest terms.” It is also Williams’s robust and persuasive plea for endurance and resistance in the face of human suffering. The earthy widow Maxine Faulk is proprietress of a rundown hotel at the edge of a Mexican cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean where the defrocked Rev. Shannon, his tour group of ladies from a West Texas women’s college, the self-described New England spinster Hannah Jelkes and her ninety-seven-year-old grandfather (“the world’s oldest living and practicing poet”), a family of grotesque Nazi vacationers, and an iguana tied by its throat to the veranda, all find themselves assembled for a rainy and turbulent night. This is the first trade paperback edition of The Night of the Iguana and comes with an Introduction by playwright Doug Wright, the author’s original Foreword, the short story “The Night of the Iguana” which was the germ for the play, plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar Kenneth Holditch.

Paperback(published Oct, 01 2009)

ISBN
9780811218528
Price US
15.95
Trim Size
5x7
Page Count
208

Ebook(published Oct, 01 2009)

ISBN
9780811220781
Price US
15.95
Portrait of Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams

America’s playwright