NOTES 1 diocese for example, Bak. 2...

NOTES

1 diocese for example, Bak.

2. Williams's in the greatest degree respected biographer, LyIe Leverich, wrote to me when 1 was working forward my Inge biography that it is "probably a safe assumption" that at least for awhile Williams and Inge were lover (Letter 1986)

3 Paliers A constant Story for His Time: Gay Characters in the Plays of Tennessee Williams is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan.

4 The Hollywood version, however, changes this considerably to give Paul Newman and Shirley Knight a certain quantity of serious camera time together.

5 The screenplay was credited to a fictitious writer the studio called "Walter Gage" (Vos 220-24)

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RALPH F VOS Professor of English at the University of Alabama, is the author of The Strains of Triumph: A Life of William lnge and editor of Magical Muse: Millennial Essays upon Tennessee Williams.

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