Maybe Tennessee Williams is the only contemporary Author who succeeded to reach success at theatre and cinema performances; endowed with extraordinary artistic perception, he made use of his sensitivity of writer in capturing subjects and milieu which maintain their fascination along the time, in an eternal symbolism which carries on forever the game of the life among winners and losers. The heroes of Tennessee, victims of incomprehensions and abuses, can redeem their anonymous ordinary lives with the lightness and the enchantment of poetry.
The greatest Tennessee's success "A streetcar named Desire" is not the first in chronological order in the production of the Author, but it is the work which got Tennessee Williams' poetry and a new way to face with the realism of a performance to become known worldwide, finding Marlon Brando as a founder of a new generation of actors who will characterize contemporary dramaturgy.
The other Tennesse's work who was performed by great actresses of American theatre and cinema is "The Glass Menagerie", which realizes the great talent of the Author, finally recognized by public and critics.
The "Rose Tattoo" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" followed, therefore constituting interesting examples of Tennessee’s theatre, with plots of passion, sex, anxieties and full-blooded portraits of life.
Tennessee's production is completed with works which resulted exasperated and not much likely, inducing the critics to define a "psychological naturalism". Among them there are "Suddenly, last Summer" and "The Milk Train doesn' t stop here anymore".
The Dramatist succeeded in establishing important relations with the actors of his works. For some of these actors Tennessee Williams had a real veneration, like in the case of Laurette Taylor and Anna Magnani, who gratified him with their professional interpretation of his works and sincere friendship.
Tennessee Williams lived his homosexuality publicly, in an America which, although orthodox and backward, understood his genius anyway.
This graduation dissertation is not expected to give the real dimension of the great literary production of Tennessee Williams, but is aimed to give a track for a following deepening of the most famous works of an American writer who, still nowadays, is capable to touch the public.