Presents critical essays on Tennessee Williams's "The Glass Menagerie" and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by critic Harold Bloom.

Includes index.

The glass menagerie revisited /Roger B. Stein -- The glass menagerie, from story to play / Lester A. Beaurline -- The glass menagerie, the revelation of quiet truth / Nancy M. Tischler -- The function of gentleman callers / Elmo Howell -- Tennessee Williams's unicorn broken again / Gilbert Debusscher -- Tennessee Williams, theatre poet in prose / Frank Durham -- The revision of The glass menagerie / Charles S. Watson -- The southern gentlewoman / Signi Falk -- Celebration of a certain courage / C.W.E. Bigsby -- The two Glass menageries, reading edition and acting edition / Geoffrey Borney -- The circle closed / R.B. Parker.