Word: scenewright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Williams is an electrifying scenewright, because his people are the sort who make scenes, explosively and woundingly. In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Big Daddy jerks the crutch out from under his son Brick's arm and sends him sprawling in agony; a few minutes later Brick kicks the life out of Big Daddy by telling the old man that he is dying of cancer. In an age that suppresses its tantrums as impolite, part of Williams' cathartic appeal for an audience is to allow it to act out its hostilities vicariously. Above all, Williams...
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