At the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival I am grateful to David Kaplan, Jef Hall-Flavin, and Patrick Falco, and would like to acknowledge their dedication to producing Tennessee Williams, particularly those one-acts and late plays New Directions has been publishing that deserve serious commitment and energy.

To Nicholas Moschovakis, a literary scholar with specialties including Shakespeare and Williams, I am much obliged. Nick is especially knowledgeable about the one-act plays, and for this project he has freely shared his expertise and excellent advice. My thanks also go to Williams scholars Annette Saddik, Allean Hale, John Bak, and David Roessel, whose answers to questions large and small have contributed to this volume.

Special thanks are due to the following people who have helped in a variety of ways: William Jay Smith, Gregory Mosher, Henry I. Schvey, Ozzie Rodriguez, Jeremy Lawrence, Jim Azzara, John DiLeo, Tim McCarthy, Jon Hansen, David White, Karen Nickeson, Terrence McNally, Kate Johnson, Jane Paradise, Davis Robinson, John Uecker, Ed Martin, and, most of all, the staff of New Directions Publishing for their friendship, good will, and access to whatever I needed to get the job done.