Abstract

TOLEDO, Luis Marcio Arnaut de. The (Des)figuration of Tennessee Williams' Dramaturgy from Yukio Mishima's Works. Lit. teor. hist. crit. [online]. 2022, vol.24, n.1, pp.131-163.  Epub Mar 09, 2022. ISSN 0123-5931.  https://doi.org/10.15446/lthc.v24n1.95531.

This work presents the Tennessee Williams's Japanese phase (1957-1969). Therefore, it focuses on the influence of playwright Yukio Mishima, the Noh and Kabuki Theatres, and the countercultural aesthetics of off and off-Broadway in the late plays. In this way, the article contextualizes the set of works from that period, in addition discuss the circumstances of social, historical, cultural, and biographical context of the playwright. It also identifies expedients that made them distinct from those plays most celebrated: self-destruction, cannibalism, extreme violence, and death. That said, we conclude that Williams develops a narrative that explores emptiness, stillness, silence, incompleteness, ambiguity of life and death, oriental culture and doctrines, in addition to metateatrality.

Keywords : dramaturgy; kabuki; noh; theater; Tennessee Williams.

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