AQA (A): Paper 2B Modern times: Comparative set text
When Cat on a Hot Tin Roof premièred on 24 March 1955, eight years after the stunning triumph of A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams was plagued by depression, alcoholism and a grim career crisis. To the author’s relief and delight, Cat was an instant commercial and critical triumph that played to packed houses on Broadway for nearly two years and won a Pulitzer Prize — but it was to be his final definitive success. In this seminal text, through ‘Brick and Maggie’s battle, Williams projected the war inside himself between self-destruction and creativity — his desire to reclaim his literary inheritance’ (Lahr 2015, p. 285).
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