Spring Storm
Category: Literature
Tags: Literature
Read by Various, When Tennessee Williams read Spring Storm aloud to his playwriting class at the University of Iowa in 1938, he was met with silence and embarrassment. His professor, the renowned E. C. Mabie, remarked as he got up and dismissed the seminar, Well, we all have to paint our nudes! Toms earlier comment in his journal that the play is well-constructed, no social propaganda, and is suitable for the commercial stage seems accurate enough in 1999, but woefully naive deep in the Depression when the plays sexual explicitnessparticularly its matter-of-fact acceptance of a womans right to her own sexualitywould have been seen as not only shocking but also politically radical. Spring Storm would later be disavowed by the author as simply a study of Sexa blind animal urge or force (like the regenerative force of April) gripping four lives and leading them into a tangle of cruel and ugly relations. But the solid and deft characterizations of the four young people whose lives intertwi
