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Suddenly Last Summer, the Glossary

Suddenly Last Summer is a one-act play by Tennessee Williams, written in New York in 1957.^[1]

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Plays by Tennessee Williams
Plays set in New Orleans
Plays set in the 1930s

Academy Award for Best Actress

The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Production Design

The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement for art direction in film.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Anne Meacham

Anne Meacham (July 21, 1925 — January 12, 2006) was an American actress of stage, film and television.

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Atavism

In biology, an atavism is a modification of a biological structure whereby an ancestral genetic trait reappears after having been lost through evolutionary change in previous generations.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Blythe Danner

Blythe Katherine Danner (born February 3, 1943) is an American actress.

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Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.

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Carla Gugino

Carla Gugino (born August 29, 1971) is an American actress.

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Celia Weston

Celia Weston is an American character actress.

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Circle in the Square Theatre

The Circle in the Square Theatre is a Broadway theater at 235 West 50th Street, within the basement of Paramount Plaza, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., commonly known as Columbia Pictures or simply Columbia, is an American film production and distribution company that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.

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Darwinism

Darwinism is a theory of biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.

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Diana Rigg

Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg (20 July 1938 – 10 September 2020) was an English actress of stage and screen.

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Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.

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Elizabeth Ashley

Elizabeth Ann Cole (born August 30, 1939), known professionally as Elizabeth Ashley, is an American actress of theatre, film, and television.

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Elizabeth Taylor

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (27 February 1932 – 23 March 2011) was a British and American actress.

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Emmy Awards

The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Eryn Jean Norvill

Eryn Jean Norvill (born 1984), sometimes spelt Eryn-Jean Norvill, is an Australian stage and television actress.

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Evening Standard Theatre Awards

The Evening Standard Theatre Awards, established in 1955, are the oldest theatrical awards ceremony in the United Kingdom.

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Galápagos Islands

The Galápagos Islands (Islas Galápagos) are an archipelago of volcanic islands in the Eastern Pacific, located around the Equator west of the mainland of South America.

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Gale Harold

Gale Morgan Harold III (born July 10, 1969) is an American actor, known for his leading and recurring roles on Queer as Folk, Deadwood, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, The Secret Circle and Defiance.

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Garden District, New Orleans

The Garden District is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

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Gerard Butler

Gerard James Butler (born 13 November 1969) is a Scottish actor and film producer.

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Gore Vidal

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his acerbic epigrammatic wit.

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England.

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Great Performances

Great Performances is a television anthology series dedicated to the performing arts; the banner has been used to televise plays, musicals, opera, ballet, concerts, as well as occasional documentaries.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.

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Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 – October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of humanities at Yale University.

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Harold Pinter Theatre

The Harold Pinter Theatre, known as the Comedy Theatre until 2011,, BBC News, 7 September 2011, accessed 8 September 2011.

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Hays Code

The Motion Picture Production Code was a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most motion pictures released by major studios in the United States from 1934 to 1968.

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Helpmann Awards

The Helpmann Awards are accolades for live entertainment and performing arts in Australia, presented by industry group Live Live Performance Australia (LPA) since 2001.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is sexual attraction, romantic attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

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Human cannibalism

Human cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

Johns Hopkins University Press (also referred to as JHU Press or JHUP) is the publishing division of Johns Hopkins University.

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Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress whose career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned six decades.

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Kip Williams

Kip Williams is an Australian theatre and opera director.

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Lobotomy

A lobotomy or leucotomy is a discredited form of neurosurgical treatment for psychiatric disorder or neurological disorder (e.g. epilepsy, depression) that involves severing connections in the brain's prefrontal cortex.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield

The Lyceum is a 1,068-seat theatre in the City of Sheffield, England.

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Maggie Smith

Dame Margaret Natalie Smith (born 28 December 1934) is an English actress.

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Michael Grandage

Michael Grandage CBE (born 2 May 1962) is a British theatre director and producer.

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Modern Drama (journal)

Modern Drama is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering studies of dramatic literature.

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Montgomery Clift

Edward Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966) was an American actor.

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Natasha Richardson

Natasha Jane Richardson (11 May 1963 – 18 March 2009) was an English-American actress.

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New Directions Publishing

New Directions Publishing Corp. is an independent book publishing company that was founded in 1936 by James Laughlin (1914–1997) and incorporated in 1964. Its offices are located at 80 Eighth Avenue in New York City.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Noël Coward Theatre

The Noël Coward Theatre, formerly known as the Albery Theatre, is a West End theatre in St.

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Obie Award

The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given since 1956 by The Village Voice newspaper to theater artists and groups involved in off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City.

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Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe

The Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe (European Music Hall) (formerly the Théâtre de l'Odéon (Music Hall)) is one of France's six national theatres.

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Off-Broadway

An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive.

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Palgrave Macmillan

Palgrave Macmillan is a British academic and trade publishing company headquartered in the London Borough of Camden.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

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Penguin Group

Penguin Group is a British trade book publisher and part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.

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Peter Lang (publisher)

Peter Lang is an academic publisher specializing in the humanities and social sciences.

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Play (theatre)

A play is a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.

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Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.

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Probate

In common law jurisdictions, probate is the judicial process whereby a will is "proved" in a court of law and accepted as a valid public document that is the true last testament of the deceased, or whereby the estate is settled according to the laws of intestacy in the state of residence of the deceased at time of death in the absence of a legal will.

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Rachel Weisz

Rachel Hannah Weisz (born 7 March 1970) is a British actress.

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Richard E. Grant

Richard E. Grant (born Richard Grant Esterhuysen; 5 May 1957) is a Swaziland (now Eswatini) born English actor and presenter.

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Richard Eyre

Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre (born 28 March 1943) is an English film, theatre, television and opera director.

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Rob Lowe

Robert Hepler Lowe (born March 17, 1964) is an American actor, filmmaker, and podcast host.

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Robert Lansing (actor)

Robert Lansing (born Robert Howell Brown, June 5, 1928 – October 23, 1994) was an American stage, film, and television actor.

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Robyn Nevin

Robyn Anne Nevin (25 September 1942) is an Australian actress, director, and stage producer, recognised with the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards and the JC Williamson Award at the Helpmann Awards for her outstanding contributions to Australian theatre performance art.

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Roundabout Theatre Company

The Roundabout Theatre Company is a non-profit theatre company based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, affiliated with the League of Resident Theatres.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, commonly known as the National Theatre (NT) within the UK and as the National Theatre of Great Britain internationally, is a performing arts venue and associated theatre company located in London, England.

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San Sebastián

San Sebastián, officially known by the bilingual name Donostia / San Sebastián, is a city and municipality located in the Basque Autonomous Community, Spain.

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Screenplay

A screenplay, or script, is a written work produced for a film, television show, or video game (as opposed to a stage play) by screenwriters.

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Sean Mathias

Sean Gerard Mathias (born 14 March 1956) is a Welsh actor, director, and writer.

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Sheila Gish

Sheila Gish (born Sheila Anne Syme Gash; 23 April 1942 – 9 March 2005) was an English actress.

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Southern Gothic

Southern Gothic is an artistic subgenre of fiction, country music, film, theatre, and television that are heavily influenced by Gothic elements and the American South.

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Stéphane Braunschweig

Stéphane André Braunschweig (born 5 July 1964) is a French theatre director.

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Subplot

In fiction, a subplot or side story is a secondary strand of the plot that is a supporting side story for any story or for the main plot.

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Sydney Theatre Company

Sydney Theatre Company (STC) is an Australian theatre company based in Sydney, New South Wales.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound.

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Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter.

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Theatre Journal

The Theatre Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the theatre arts, with articles from the October and December issues centering on a predetermined theme.

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Truth serum

"Truth serum" is a colloquial name for any of a range of psychoactive drugs used in an effort to obtain information from subjects who are unable or unwilling to provide it otherwise.

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University of Toronto Press

The University of Toronto Press is a Canadian university press.

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University Press of Mississippi

The University Press of Mississippi (UPM), founded in 1970, is a university press that is sponsored by the eight state universities in Mississippi (i.e., Alcorn State University, Delta State University, Jackson State University, Mississippi State University, Mississippi University for Women, Mississippi Valley State University, University of Mississippi, and the University of Southern Mississippi), making it one of the few university presses in the United States to have more than one affiliate university.

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Venus flytrap

The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant native to the temperate and subtropical wetlands of North Carolina and South Carolina, on the East Coast of the United States.

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Victor Slezak

Victor Slezak (born July 30, 1957) is an American stage, television and screen actor who has appeared in numerous films, including The Bridges of Madison County (1995), Beyond Rangoon (1995), The Devil's Own (1997), The Siege (1998), The Cat's Meow (2001), Timequest as John F. Kennedy (2002), and The Notorious Bettie Page (2005).

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Victoria Hamilton

Victoria Hamilton (born 5 April 1971) is an English actress.

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West End theatre

West End theatre is mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and near the West End of London.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suddenly_Last_Summer

Also known as Suddenly, Last Summer.

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See also

Plays by Tennessee Williams

Plays set in New Orleans

Plays set in the 1930s

References