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Structures of Feeling in Tennessee Williams 's "The Night of the Iguana" and Edward Albee 's "A Delicate Balance" Author(s): Norma Jenckes Reviewed work(s): Source: South Atlantic Review, Vol. 70, No. 4, Tennessee Williams in/and the Canons of American Drama (Fall, 2005), pp. 4-22 Published by: South Atlantic Modern Language Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20064685 . Accessed: 10/02/2013 13:34
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Structures The Night
of Feeling in Tennessee Williams 's
of the Iguana and Edward Albee 's
A. Delicate Balance
NORMA JENCKES
University of Cincinnati
is the only great playwright we 've ever had in Albee so Tennessee Williams entered the lists famously and early America," in this appreciation of the younger playwright. He later qualified this "Edward bold assertion, we are told byMel Gussow, when he saw it in print: I am sure thatEdward Albee is even more embarrassed
than I am by themisquotation attributed tome that he is the only great playwright thatAmerica has produced. Since I know that he must feel as I do that themark of is a great one yet to be reached by any Eugene O 'Neill of us late comers. (182) Albee expressed
Structures of Feeling in Tennessee Williams 's "The Night of the Iguana" and Edward Albee 's "A Delicate Balance" Author(s): Norma Jenckes Reviewed work(s): Source: South Atlantic Review, Vol. 70, No. 4, Tennessee Williams in/and the Canons of American Drama (Fall, 2005), pp. 4-22 Published by: South Atlantic Modern Language Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20064685 . Accessed: 10/02/2013 13:34
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Structures The Night
of Feeling in Tennessee Williams 's
of the Iguana and Edward Albee 's
A. Delicate Balance
NORMA JENCKES
University of Cincinnati
is the only great playwright we 've ever had in Albee so Tennessee Williams entered the lists famously and early America," in this appreciation of the younger playwright. He later qualified this "Edward bold assertion, we are told byMel Gussow, when he saw it in print: I am sure thatEdward Albee is even more embarrassed
than I am by themisquotation attributed tome that he is the only great playwright thatAmerica has produced. Since I know that he must feel as I do that themark of is a great one yet to be reached by any Eugene O 'Neill of us late comers. (182) Albee expressed
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