The Catastrophe of Success

"The Catastrophe of Success"
Author	Tennessee Williams
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Essay
Published in	November 30, 1947
Publisher	The New York Times

"The Catastrophe of Success" is an essay by Tennessee Williams about art and the artist's role in society. It is often included in paper editions of The Glass Menagerie.^[1]

A version of this essay first appeared in The New York Times,^[1] November 30, 1947, four days before the opening of A Streetcar Named Desire (previously titled "The Poker Night"). Another version of this essay, titled "A Streetcar Named Success" is sometimes used as an introduction to A Streetcar Named Desire.

References

1 2 Williams, Tennessee. "The Glass Menagerie".

External links

Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie (1944)

Characters	Tom Wingfield Amanda Wingfield Laura Wingfield Jim O'Connor

Performances	The Glass Menagerie (1950 film) The Glass Menagerie (1966 TV movie) The Glass Menagerie (1973 TV movie) The Glass Menagerie (1987 film)

Adaptations	Akale (2004 Malayalam film) Here Without Me (2010 Iranian film)

Related	Portrait of a Girl in Glass "The Catastrophe of Success"

Works by Tennessee Williams

Plays	Candles to the Sun (1936) Spring Storm (1937) Fugitive Kind (1937) Not About Nightingales (1938) Battle of Angels (1940) Auto-da-Fé (1941) The Glass Menagerie (1944) You Touched Me (1945) Stairs to the Roof (1947) A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) Summer and Smoke (1948) The Rose Tattoo (1951) Camino Real (1953) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) Orpheus Descending (1957) Suddenly, Last Summer (1958) Sweet Bird of Youth (1959) Period of Adjustment (1960) The Night of the Iguana (1961) The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963) The Seven Descents of Myrtle (1968) In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (1969) Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis? (1969) Out Cry (1971) Small Craft Warnings (1972) The Two-Character Play (1973) The Red Devil Battery Sign (1975) This Is (An Entertainment) (1976) Vieux Carré (1977) A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (1979) Clothes for a Summer Hotel (1980) The Notebook of Trigorin (1981) Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981) A House Not Meant to Stand (1982)

Novels	The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1950) Moise and the World of Reason (1975)

Short story collections	Hard Candy: A Book of Stories (1954) Three Players of a Summer Game and Other Stories (1960) The Knightly Quest: a Novella and Four Short Stories (1966) One Arm and Other Stories (1967) Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed: a Book of Stories (1974)

Screenplays	The Glass Menagerie (1950) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) The Rose Tattoo (1955) Baby Doll (1956) Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) The Fugitive Kind (1959) Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966) Boom! (1968) The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (1957, filmed 2009)

Non-fiction	"The Catastrophe of Success" (1947) "A Streetcar Named Success" (1947)

Poetry	In the Winter of Cities (1956) Androgyne, Mon Amour (1977)

Unfinished manuscripts	In Masks Outrageous and Austere (1983)

Related articles	List of one-act plays by Tennessee Williams

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