ROMANTIC REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY IN SELECTED PLAYS BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
ROMANTIC REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY IN SELECTED PLAYS BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to show similarities between representation of thecity in two texts of American romantic authors, Herman Melville and NathanielHawthorne, and two dramas of Tennessee Williams, a playwright of the post WWIIera. While it is a well-known fact that writers contemporary to Williams, such as AllenGinsberg or Saul Bellow, reached back to romantic tradition for literary inspiration,not much is known about the extent to which American playwrights were influencedby American romantic men of letters. The main purpose of the present article is to tryto show that the romantic opposition between urban spaces and natural environmentis present in plays by Tennessee Williams.

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