The American theatre on the London stage: Tennessee Williams at the Royal Court Theatre

This article aims at disseminating knowledge to experts and researchers interested in American theatre of the presence of plays from the United States at the internationally recognised Royal Court Theatre in London, one of the birthplaces of modern British drama, especially for revealing new authors. It focuses on plays by Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), one of the playwrights among the distinct group of American playwrights whose work was taken to the stage of the legendary theatre. The historiographic character of this text will be intertwined with brief analyses of the relation between content and form of Tennessee’s plays which possibly attracted the attention of the artistic directors of the Royal Court and made possible a relevant exchange between the American and the modern British theatre in the post-war period.