Sweet Bird of Youth, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie

"If there is any truth in the Aristotelian idea that violence is purged by its poetic representation on stage, then it may be that my cycle of violent plays have had a moral justification after all" – Tennessee Williams Sweet Bird of Youth: His first phenomenal Broadway success, set on the Gulf Coast. A Streetcar Named Desire: In New Orleans a woman’s fantasies of primness and respectability are violently stripped away and exposed. The Glass Menagerie: Falling outside Williams’s cycle of violent plays, this drama is set in a St Louis slum, where a crippled girl lives with her family, her collection of glass animals and her memories.