Laura Michiels. The Metatheater of Tennessee Williams: Tracing the Artistic Process Through Seven Plays. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2021, 249 p.
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In the concluding chapter of her study of Tennessee Williams’s metatheater, Laura Michiels admits to some initial misgivings about her title. Would “metadrama” or “meta-art” have been more appropriate labels? she ponders. Yet, though she refers to few specific productions, metatheater aptly encapsulates the author’s preoccupation with Williams’s self-reflexive theatrical process, one that, according to her central premise, plays “a variation on repetition and transformation” (1). This is a mo...