Tennessee Williams is one of America's most respected playwrights. He was one of the select few playwrights responsible for American theatre's 'golden age', and with works like The Glass Menagerie and Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, it is no surprise. Williams was born in Mississippi an...

A tragic hero is a man who "... is highly renown and prosperous, but One who is not pre-eminently virtuous and just, whose misfortune, However, is brought upon him not by vice or depravity, but by some Error in judgment or frailty (hamartia)..." (Aristotle). As defined in Poetic...