Fugitive Kind by Tennessee Williams PAPERBACK 9780811214728

Fugitive KindAuthor(s): Tennessee Williams, Allean Hale\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation, United States\nImprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation\nISBN-13: 9780811214728, 978-0811214728\nSynopsis\nFugitive Kind, one of Tennessee Williams's earliest plays, is one of his richest in dramatic material. Written in 1937 when the playwright was still Thomas Lanier Williams, Fugitive Kind introduces the character who will inhabit most of his later plays: the marginal man or woman who, through no personal fault, is a misfit in society but who demonstrates an admirable will to survive. Signature Tennessee Williams' characters, situations, and even the title (which was used as The Fugitive Kind for the 1960 film based on Orpheus Descending) have their genesis here. At age twenty-six, Williams was still learning his craft and this, his second full-length play, shows his debt to sources as diverse as thirties gangster films (The Petrified Forest, Winterse.