Previously unpublished Tennessee Williams draft centers on writers D.H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield
Scholar Gerri Kimber wrote that the untitled play 'seems never to have been discussed by scholars until now.' Williams' draft will reportedly be published in 'Katherine Mansfield Studies' in 2015.
Tennessee Williams is photographed in his Manhattan apartment in 1980.
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A new section of an unpublished play by writer Tennessee Williams will be published in 2015.聽
Gerri Kimber, a senior lecturer at the University of Northampton, wrote for the UK鈥檚 that she found 10 pages of a work by Williams at the University of Texas at Austin. The play did not have a title but the first section was titled 鈥淭he Night of the Zeppelin鈥� and the second was named 鈥淎rmistice.鈥� The characters were writer D.H. Lawrence, his wife Frieda, and authors Katherine Mansfield, which Williams spells 鈥淜atharine,鈥� and John Middleton Murry.
鈥淭he play is listed in 鈥楾ennessee Williams: A bibliography鈥櫬燽y Drewey Wayne Gunn as one of the holdings in Texas, and Margaret Bradham Thornton refers to it in a footnote in聽鈥楾ennessee Williams: Notebooks,鈥欌�� Kimber wrote for the Times Literary Supplement. 鈥淏ut the play seems never to have been discussed by scholars until now鈥�. Never having been published, this piece has been almost entirely forgotten. Mansfield scholars will appreciate the fact that Tennessee Williams centred the scene 鈥淭he Night of the Zeppelin鈥� on her character, and relish this connection to an iconic American writer.鈥�
According to , the entire version will be published in 鈥淜atherine Mansfield Studies鈥� in 2015.