List of One-act Plays By Tennessee Williams - One Act Publication History

One Act Publication History

• 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (New Directions Publishers, February 1946, first edition; NDP217)
  • Collects 27 Wagons Full of Cotton; The Lady of Larkspur Lotion; The Last of My Solid Gold Watches; Portrait of a Madonna; Auto Da Fé; Lord Byron's Love Letter; This Property Is Condemned; The Long Goodbye; At Liberty; Moony's Kid Don't Cry; The Strangest Kind of Romance; Hello from Bertha; and The Purification.

• American Blues: Five Short Plays (Dramatists Play Service, 1948)
  • Collects The Dark Room; Ten Blocks on the Camino Real; The Case of the Crushed Petunias; The Unsatisfactory Supper; and Moony's Kid Don't Cry.

• Dragon Country: A Book of Plays (New Directions Publishers, 1970; NDP287)
  • Collects (along with the full-length play In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel) I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix; The Mutilated; I Can't Imagine Tomorrow; Confessional; The Frosted Glass Coffin; The Gnädiges Fräulein; and A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot.

• Tennessee Williams, Plays 1937-1955 (Library of America, 2000; #119)
  • Collects (along with his full-length plays) 27 Wagons Full of Cotton; The Lady of Larkspur Lotion; The Last of My Solid Gold Watches; Portrait of a Madonna; Auto Da Fé; Lord Byron's Love Letter; This Property Is Condemned; Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen; and Something Unspoken.

• Tennessee Williams, Plays 1957-1980 (Library of America, 2000; #120)
  • Collects (along with his full-length plays) Suddenly, Last Summer and The Mutilated.

• Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays (New Directions Publishers, 2005; NDP1007)
  • Collects These Are the Stairs You Got to Watch; Mister Paradise; The Palooka; Escape; Why Do You Smoke So Much, Lily?; Summer at the Lake; The Big Game; The Pink Bedroom; The Fat Man's Wife; Thank You, Kind Spirit; The Municipal Abattoir; Adam and Eve on a Ferry; and And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens.

• The Traveling Companion & Other Plays (New Directions Publishers, 2008; NDP1106)
  • Collects (along with the full-length play Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis?) The Chalky White Substance; The Day on Which a Man Dies; A Cavalier for Milady; The Pronoun "I"; The Remarkable Rooming-House of Mme. LeMonde; Kirche, Küche, Kinder; Green Eyes; The Parade; The One Exception; Sunburst; and The Traveling Companion.

• Camino Real (New Directions Publishers, 2008; NDP1122)
  • Collects (along with the full-length play Camino Real) Ten Blocks on the Camino Real.

• Sweet Bird of Youth (New Directions Publishers, 2008; NDP1123)
  • Collects (along with the full-length play Sweet Bird of Youth) The Enemy: Time.

• The Rose Tattoo (New Directions Publishers, 2010; NDP1172)
  • Collects (along with the full-length play The Rose Tattoo) The Dog Enchanted by the Divine View.

• The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays (New Directions Publishers, 2011; NDP1182)
  • Collects At Liberty; The Magic Tower; Mr. Vashya; Curtains for the Gentleman; In Our Profession; Every Twenty Minutes; Honor the Living; The Case of the Crushed Petunias; The Pretty Trap; Some Problems for the Moose Lodge; Interior: Panic; Mooney's Kid Don't Cry; Kingdom of Earth; I Never Get Dressed Till After Dark on Sundays; and The Dark Room.

• The Glass Menagerie - Deluxe Centennial Edition (New Directions Publishers, 2011; NDP)
  • Collects (along with the full-length play The Glass Menagerie) The Pretty Trap.

• Orpheus Descending and Suddenly, Last Summer (New Directions Publishers, 2012; Release date: November 29, 2012)