• ISBN13: 9788126922970
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: June 15, 2017
• Pages: 120
• Original Price: INR 595.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 340 grams

Tennessee Williams was an American playwright and author of many stage classics. He is considered among the three foremost playwrights in 20th-century American drama, along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller.
He became famous with his play The Glass Menagerie (1944), closely reflecting his own unhappy family background. His drama A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) is often numbered on the short list of the finest American plays of the 20th century alongside Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night and Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.
The book explains the concept of southern tradition in Williams’s The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. It studies the women protagonists in these plays, Amanda Wingfield and Blanche DuBois, respectively, who live in the present by the old south’s tradition which is gone with time. For them the present does not exist, or rather they prefer to live in the past ignoring the present. Their minds are preoccupied with the tradition. Their love of tradition controls their present behavior and also causes their suffering.
The book is an attempt to critically examine the form of southern tradition and provide the reader with a new approach to study the plays. It also analyzes Tennessee Williams’s dramatic technique and contribution to the world theatre. It will be useful for the students and teachers of American Literature, and researchers in this field.

Shahaji Gaikwad is Associate Professor and Head, UG & PG Department of English in M.S.S. Arts, Commerce and Science College, Jalna, Maharashtra. (It is a NAAC reaccredited ‘A’ grade college in the region.) He obtained his Ph.D. degree in American Literature from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad.
Twice he was nominated as a member of, and third time (2010-15), he served as Chairman of the Board of Studies in English, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University. He has substantial postdoctoral publications to his credit, and is the author of the book Novelists of the American South: Walker Percy and Shelby Foote (Atlantic, 2010). Besides, he has co-edited a number of textbooks for both the undergraduate and postgraduate classes. He is also a research supervisor and is actively engaged in research work.