Table of Contents

Plays 1957-1980Orpheus Descending
Suddenly Last Summer
Sweet Bird of Youth
Period of Adjustment
The Night of the Iguana
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
The Mutilated
Kingdom of Earth (The Seven Descents of Myrtle)
Small Craft Warnings
Out Cry
Vieux Carré
A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

Chronology
Note on the Texts
Notes

About the Author

This volume is edited by Mel Gussow (1933–2005), who was a drama critic, a cultural writer at The New York Times, and author of several books including Edward Albee: A Singular Journey, and by Kenneth Holditch, professor emeritus at the University of New Orleans, editor since 1989 of the Tennessee Williams Journal, and the author of In Old New Orleans.