Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Jordan Sanderson (Auburn University); Raymond Wachter
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Along with

The Glass Menagerie

and

A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

is one of Tennessee Williams’s most well-known plays. Originally produced on Broadway at the Morosco Theatre in New York, the play received nearly unanimous praise for its captivating characters and controversial subject matter. By the close of its 694 performances on Broadway, the play had earned Williams his second Pulitzer Prize and his third Drama Critics’ Circle Award. Following the phenomenal commercial and critical success of

The Glass Menagerie

(1944) and

A Streetcar Named Desire

(1947),

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

confirmed Williams’s reputation as one of the most important playwrights of the 20th Century. Directed by legendary director (and frequent Williams collaborator) Elia Kazan, the original…

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Citation: Sanderson, Jordan, Raymond Wachter. "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 05 January 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6136, accessed 19 March 2024.]

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