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The Troubled Flight of Tennessee Williams's Sweet Bird: From Manuscript through Published Texts

Tennessee Williams has seldom been able to resist revising or rewriting his plays. Of his eighteen full-length plays published as of autumn 1979, thirteen have appeared in print, and seventeen been produced, in more than one version. Critics have rarely examined the differing texts, but in general one can say that Williams's final revisions are the superior versions. As he reworks a play, he usually tightens its structure and sharpens its dramatic values. However, one notable exception to this pattern exists: Sweet Bird of Youth. The three successive texts , 1959-1962, represent rather a sequential degeneration of Williams's artistic control, for in each revision the structure, the development of the characters, and the focus of the play become progressively less coherent. The fact is all the more lamentable since even the first published text of the play represents a failure in vision. After working and reworking elements that went into Sweet Bird for at least nine years, Williams had in 1958 arrived at ...