Orpheus Descending is a love story, a plea for spiritual and
artistic freedom, as well as a portrait of racism and intolerance.
When charismatic drifter Valentine Xavier arrives in a Mississippi
Delta town with his guitar and snakeskin jacket, he becomes a
trigger for hatred and a magnet for three outcast souls:
storekeeper Lady Torrance, lewd vagrant Carol Cutrere, and
religious visionary Vee Talbot.
Suddenly Last Summer, described by its author as a short
morality play, has become one of his most notorious works due in no
small part to the film version starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine
Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift that shocked audiences in 1959. A
menacing tale of madness, jealousy, and denial, the horrors in
Suddenly Last Summer build to a heart-stopping conclusion.
With perceptive new introductions by playwright Martin Sherman
he reframes Orpheus Descending in a political context and explores
the psychology and sensationalism surrounding Suddenly Last Summer
this volume also offers Williams s related essay, The Past, the
Present, and the Perhaps, and a chronology of the playwright s life
and works.
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