1. Tennessee Williams, Where I Live: Selected Essays, ed. Christine B. Day and Bob Woods (New York: New Directions, 1978), p. 60.
2. See Thomas P. Adler, ‘Culture, Power, and the (En)gendering of Community: Tennessee Williams and Politics,’ The Mississippi Quarterly, 48.4 (1995), pp. 649–55.
3. Robert J. Corber, Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997), pp. 1–43.
4. Paul J. Hurley, ‘Tennessee Williams: The Playwright as Social Critic,’ reprinted in The Critical Response to Tennessee Williams, ed. George W. Crandell (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996), p. 126.
5. Hurley, ‘Social’ (1996), p. 127.