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594
“second best bed”: William Shakespeare’s Last Will and Testament (1616) contains this stipulation: “Item, I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.”
594
“Suppose both Peter and Tenn were terminally ill?”: Lahr, “Lady and Tennessee,” p. 86.
594
“What do you think?”: Ibid.
595
“ ‘Tell her I’m asleep’ ”: Ibid., p. 92.
595
“I knew that
she
was the one”: Ibid.
595
“BANG, BANG, BANG”: Ibid., p. 90.
595
“the oubliette”: Ibid.
595
“She was engaged in vigorous battles”: Ibid., p. 86.
596
“Maria was the greatest cheerleader”: Ibid., p. 92.
596
“Eastman is perfectly willing”: Ibid.
596
“These are the people”: Ibid., p. 88.
596
“Denying this group of users”: Ibid., p. 89.
596
“Maria wasn’t really interested”: Ibid., p. 96.
597
St. Just wrote: Lady St. Just to Ed Sherin, Mar. 27, 1983, ESC.
597
“I wanted to name”: Lahr, “Lady and Tennessee,” p. 93.
597
disliked because it was “homosexual”: Ibid., p. 89.
597
“She said, ‘The play is not doable’ ”: Ibid., p. 95.
597
“She pretended an awful lot”: Ibid., p. 94.
598
“His personal image”: Ibid., p. 89.
598
“I explained to her”: Ibid.
598
Many biographers were called: A. Scott Berg, Judith Thurman, Virginia Spencer Carr, John Lahr.
598
“She definitely wanted to vet the manuscript”: Lahr, “Lady and Tennessee,” p. 89.
598
“I would never trust you with him”: Ibid.
598
“You have ruined Tennessee Williams!”: Ibid.
598
“full access to my private correspondence and journals”: Ibid., p. 90.
599
“Baby, you write it!”: Ibid.
599
“pirate book”: Ibid.
599
“fit into Maria’s plans”: Ibid., p. 91.
600
“I admired the depth of its research”: Ibid.
600
“As I recall”: Ibid.
600
“The answer is spelled blackmail”: Ibid.
600
“I must remain friends”: Ibid.
600
“I’ve denounced her”: Ibid.
600
“submit for your review and comment”: Ibid.
600
“Maria wreaked havoc”: Ibid.
601
allowed Leverich’s biography to proceed to publication:
The Late Plays of Tennessee Williams
, by the director and theater professor William Prosser, set aside in 1991 because of St. Just’s diktats, was also posthumously published, in 2009.
601
In 2000: The figures were provided and confirmed by the University of the South, which owns the Williams copyrights.
601
“. . . this much will be clear”:
CP
, “Part of a Hero,” p. 34.
601
“I have always depended”: LOA1, p. 563.
601
“Sometimes—there’s God”: Ibid., p. 529.
601
“Nowadays the world is lit”: Ibid., p. 465.
601
“
Make voyages!
”: LOA1, p. 797.
601
“fatal need”: Gilbert Maxwell,
Tennessee Williams and
Friends: An Informal Biography
(Cleveland: World Publishing, 1965), p. 20.
602
“the tragic division of the human spirit”: Williams to Jessica Tandy, undated, as quoted in Mike Steen,
A Look at Tennessee Williams
(New York: Hawthorn Books, 1969), p. 181.
602
“I want to get my goodness back”: Lahr, “Lady and Tennessee,” p. 91.
602
“What implements have we but words”:
NSE
, p. 188.
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