Primary texts (plays):
- The Glass Menagerie (1944) in Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays (Penguin Modern Classics, 2000)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) in Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays (Penguin Modern Classics, 2000)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) in Tennessee Williams, The Theatre of Tennessee Williams (Vol. 3; New Directions, 1991)
- Sweet Bird of Youth (1956) in Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays (Penguin Modern Classics, 2000)
- Suddenly Last Summer (1958) in Tennessee Williams, The Theatre of Tennessee Williams (Vol. 3; New Directions, 1991)
- The Night of the Iguana (1959/61)in Three by Tennessee: Sweet Bird of Youth/the Rose Tattoo/the Night of the Iguana (Signet Classics, 2003)
Primary texts (films):
- The Glass Menagerie (dir. Irving Rapper, 1950)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (dir. Elia Kazan, 1951)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (dir. Richard Brooks, 1958)
- Suddenly Last Summer (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1959)
- Sweet Bird of Youth (dir. Richard Brooks, 1962)
- The Night of the Iguana (dir. John Huston, 1964)
Secondary reading (app. 600p. to be made available in a compendium with the exception of Hayman's book, which students must buy separately):
- Corrigan, Mary Ann. “Memory, Dream, and Myth in the Plays of Tennessee Williams.” 1976. Critical Essays on Tennessee Williams. Ed. Robert A. Martin. New York: G.K. Hall, 1997. 221-33.
- Ganz, Arthur. “Tennessee Williams: A Desperate Morality.” 1976. Tennessee Williams: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Stephen Stanton. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1977.
- Griffin, Alice. Understanding Tennessee Williams. Columbia, SC: U of South Carolina P, 1995. 1-104, 143-71, 197-241.
- Hayman, Ronald. How to Read a Play. Rev. ed. 1999. 113 p.
- Jackson, Esther M. “Tennessee Williams: The Idea of ‘Plastic Form.’” Critical Essays on Tennessee Williams. Ed. Robert A. Martin. New York: G.K. Hall, 1997. 191-208.
- Miller, D.A. “Visual Pleasure in 1959.” Out Takes: Essays on Queery Theory and Film. Ed. Ellis Hanson. Durham and London: Duke UP, 1999. 97-125.
- Monaco, James. How to Read a Film: The Art, Technology, Language, History, and Theory of Film and Media. Rev. ed. New York and Oxford, OUP, 1981. 121-91.
- Palmer, R. Barton. ”Hollywood in crisis: Tennessee Williams and the evolution of the adult film.” The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams. Ed. Matthew C. Roudané. Cambridge: CUP, 1997.
- Phillips, Gene D. The Films of Tennessee Williams. Philadelphia: Art Alliance Press, 1980. 15-87, 133-96, 280-98.
- “Blanche’s Phantom Husband: Homosexuality on Stage and Screen.” Louisiana Literature 14 (1997): 36-47.