first edition Paperback
2001 · New York
by Williams, Tennesse, eedited with introduction by Allean Hale, poem by Clark Mills
New York: New Directions, 2001. Paperback. xxv, 147p., frontis of original Mummers cast playbill, introduction, production note, cast, script, very good first trade paperback edition thus, pictorial wraps. NDP 915. William's second full-length play, first produced by the activist theatre group, The Mummers in 1937. Williams had been influenced by "Winterset" & "The Petrified Forest" films as well as the political views of his friend Clark Mills who edited the Marxist fiction magazine "The Anvil". The title was also used for the Brando film based upon "Orpheus Descending (Inventory #: 254348)