Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

"Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" is a play by Tennessee Williams. One of Williams's best-known works and his personal favorite, the play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955. Set in the bed-sitting room of Big Daddy Pollitt, a wealthy Mississippi Delta cotton tycoon, the play examines the relationships among members of Big Daddy's family, primarily between his son Brick and Brick's wife Maggie the "Cat". "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" features several recurring motifs, such as social mores, greed, superficiality, mendacity, decay, sexual desire, repression, and death. There are several variations of the play script. Einstein Books' "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" contains the original script by Williams, and also the 1955 Broadway version, which was directed by Elia Kazan and had a different final third act. Einstein Books' edition of "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" contains supplementary texts: • “I Rise In Flame, Cried The Phoenix”, by Tennessee Williams, which presents a fictionalized version of the death of English writer D. H. Lawrence on the French Riveria; Lawrence was one of Williams' chief literary influences. • An excerpt from “Spring Storm”, which Williams wrote while studying as an apprentice. "Spring Storm" received poor reviews in Williams’s playwriting course, and it did not receive its first production until 1995 in Berkeley, California. • A Few Selected Quotes Of Tennessee Williams.