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Tennessee Williams, (1911-1983), one of the 20th century's most superb writers, was also one of its most successful and prolific. New Directions publishes Williams' letters, short stories, poems, fiction, and over fifty of his plays including Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Summer and Smoke, Camino Real, Sweet Bird of Youth, Night of the Iguana, Orpheus Descending, and The Rose Tattoo.

 

Listed here are all of Williams' works published by New Directions. Click on the links to skip to poetry or prose. Many of Williams' plays are collected in the eight-volume set The Theatre of Tennessee Williams; please use your browser's "find" function to locate individual plays. To order any of these books, visit our catalog page and click on the purchasing links.

PLAYS

Baby Doll & Tiger Tail

Camino Real (with 10 Blocks on the Camino Real)

Candles to the Sun

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Clothes for a Summer Hotel

Fugitive Kind

A House Not Meant to Stand

The Glass Menagerie

A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays:

These Are the Stairs You Got to Watch

Mister Paradise

The Palooka

Escape

Why Do You Smoke So Much, Lily?

Summer At The Lake

The Big Game

The Pink Bedroom

The Fat Man's Wife

Thank You, Kind Spirit

The Municipal Abattoir

Adam and Eve on a Ferry

And Tell Sad Stories of The Deaths of Queens...

Not About Nightingales

The Notebook of Trigorin

Something Cloudy, Something Clear

Spring Storm

Stairs to the Roof

Stopped Rocking and Other Screen Plays:

All Gaul is Divided

The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond

One Arm

Stopped Rocking

A Streetcar Named Desire

Sweet Bird of Youth (with The Enemy: Time)

The Traveling Companion and Other Plays:

The Chalky White Substance

The Day on Which a Man Dies

A Cavalier for Milady

The Pronoun "I"

The Remarkable Rooming-House of Mme. LeMonde

Kirche Küche Kinder

Green Eyes

The Parade

The One Exception

Sunburst

Will Mr. Merriwether Return from Memphis?

The Traveling Companion

27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays:

27 Wagons Full of Cotton

The Purification

The Lady of Larkspur Lotion

The Last of My Solid Gold Watches

Portrait of a Madonna

Auto-Da-Fé

Lord Byron's Love Letter

The Strangest Kind of Romance

The Long Goodbye

Hello From Bertha

This Property is Condemned

Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen

Something Unspoken

The Two-Character Play

Vieux Carré

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume I:

Battle of Angels

A Streetcar Named Desire

The Glass Menagerie

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume II:

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

Summer and Smoke

The Rose Tattoo

Camino Real

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume III:

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Orpheus Descending

Suddenly Last Summer

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume IV:

Sweet Bird of Youth

Period of Adjustment

The Night of the Iguana

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume V:

The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore

Kingdom of Earth (The Seven Descents of Myrtle)

Small Craft Warnings

The Two-Character Play

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume VI: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Short Plays: includes all the plays from the individual volume of 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays plus

The Unsatisfactory Supper

Steps Must be Gentle

The Demolition Downtown

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume VII: In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel and Other Plays

In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel

I Rise in Flames, Cried the Phoenix

The Mutilated

I Can’t Imagine Tomorrow

Confessional

The Frosted Glass Coffin

The Gnädiges Fräulein

A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot

Lifeboat Drill, Now the Cats with Jeweled Claws

This is the Peaceable Kingdom

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume VIII:

Vieux Carré

A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

Clothes for a Summer Hotel

The Red Devil Battery Sign

POETRY

Collected Poems

In the Winter of Cities

PROSE

Collected Stories

Hard Candy and Other Stories

One Arm and Other Stories

Memoirs

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume I

The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume II

Where I Live: Selected Essays

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