Fugitive Kind

1937 play by Tennessee Williams

For the 1960 film based on Williams's Orpheus Descending, see The Fugitive Kind.

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Fugitive Kind is a 1937 play written by Tennessee Williams. The play is evocative of a Clifford Odets Depression era play. The action takes place in a flophouse in Two Rivers, Mississippi during the waning days of 1936, as the New Year 1937 is imminent. The play features a lonesome clerk, who oversees a hotel that houses a collection of alcoholic losers and a rebellious college student. The owner of the hotel is an obsessive Jew. The clerk is befriended by an on-the-run gangster, Terry Meighan, who claims to be a victim of the corrupt social system. He represents hope to the hotel clerk.

## Reviews[edit]

* Slobodnik, Syd. "Early Williams is Just a Shadow of His Best". the217.com. Illini Media. Retrieved 2011-06-21.

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Works by Tennessee Williams

Plays|

* Candles to the Sun (1936)
* Spring Storm (1937)
* Fugitive Kind (1937)
* Not About Nightingales (1938)
* Battle of Angels (1940)
* Auto-da-Fé (1941)
* The Glass Menagerie (1944)
* You Touched Me (1945)
* Stairs to the Roof (1947)
* A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
* Summer and Smoke (1948)
* The Rose Tattoo (1951)
* Camino Real (1953)
* Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
* Orpheus Descending (1957)
* Suddenly Last Summer (1958)
* Sweet Bird of Youth (1959)
* Period of Adjustment (1960)
* The Night of the Iguana (1961)
* The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963)
* The Seven Descents of Myrtle (1968)
* In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (1969)
* Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis? (1969)
* Out Cry (1971)
* Small Craft Warnings (1972)
* The Two-Character Play (1973)
* The Red Devil Battery Sign (1975)
* This Is (An Entertainment) (1976)
* Vieux Carré (1977)
* A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (1979)
* Clothes for a Summer Hotel (1980)
* The Notebook of Trigorin (1981)
* Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981)
* A House Not Meant to Stand (1982)
* In Masks Outrageous and Austere (1983)

Novels|

* The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1950)
* Moise and the World of Reason (1975)

Short story
collections|

* Hard Candy: A Book of Stories (1954)
* Three Players of a Summer Game and Other Stories (1960)
* The Knightly Quest: a Novella and Four Short Stories (1966)
* One Arm and Other Stories (1967)
* Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed: a Book of Stories (1974)

Screenplays|

* The Glass Menagerie (1950)
* A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
* The Rose Tattoo (1955)
* Baby Doll (1956)
* Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
* The Fugitive Kind (1959)
* Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966)
* Boom! (1968)
* The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (1957, filmed 2008)

Non-fiction|

* "The Catastrophe of Success" (1947)
* "A Streetcar Named Success" (1947)

Poetry|

* In the Winter of Cities (1956)
* Androgyne, Mon Amour (1977)

Related|

* List of one-act plays by Tennessee Williams

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