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Article: Kolin, Philip C., ed. The Undiscovered Country: the Later Plays of Tennessee Williams.(Book Review)
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- January 1, 2005
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KOLIN, Philip C., ed. The Undiscovered Country: The Later Plays of Tennessee Williams. New York: Lang, 2002. ix, 223 pp. $32.95.
This ambitious collection of new essays on Tennessee Williams reminds us that the twentieth century has passed into history and that the time has come to reassess the status of our dramatic canon in light of changing conceptions of the theater and its audience. As its title suggests, The Undiscovered Country: The Later Plays of Tennessee Williams argues energetically on behalf of the as-yet-minority view that scholars and critics have undervalued the post-1960 plays of Williams because they have been unwilling to revise expectations of ...