Tennessee Williams vs. Virginia Woolf
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Tennessee Williams
1911 – 1983
Thomas Lanier Williams III, known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.
"Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all…"
Virginia Woolf
1882 – 1941
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
Connections
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