Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher Methuen Drama
- Date of Publication 24 August 2023
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350237988
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages168 pages
- Size 196x130x14 mm
- Weight 146 g
- Language English 531
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Long description:
'Williams's favourite among his plays, [Cat on a Hot Tin Roof] is perhaps his most impassioned and articulate statement on human isolation, the wrenching problems of communication between people and the ways in which death defines life.' NEW YORK TIMES
In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a Southern family meet to celebrate 'Big Daddy' Pollitt's 65th birthday. But as the party unfolds, the facade of a happy family gathering is fractured by sexual frustration, repressed love and greed in the light of their father's impending death.
This edition includes a commentary by Benjamin Hudson, which explores the major themes of the play, including illness and mortality; white supremacy through the plantation setting; mendacity and 'fake news'; alcoholism and addiction; as well as sexuality, womanhood and mid-century notions of masculinity. It draws attention to the context of the play, including the cultural, social and political landscape of the Mississippi Delta and St. Louis; the first-hand witnessing of Black life in the South; homosexuality and outsider sympathy; and American conservatism and the idealised 1950s family. It also delves into recent productions and adaptations of the play, including the Bollywood and Antoine Fuqua film adaptations.
Table of Contents:
Chronology
Introduction
Original contexts (Williams's biography; setting)
Cat in the 21st-century/COVID-era play
Themes (whiteness and cultural degeneration; illness and mortality; marriage, sexuality and inheritance)
Productions/adaptations
Further readings
Notes
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