Williams wrote: ��his is a play about love in its purest terms.��It is also Williams's robust and persuasive plea for endurance and resistance in the face of human suffering. The earthy widow
Maxine Faulk is proprietress of a rundown hotel at the edge of a Mexican cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean where the defrocked Rev. Shannon, his tour group of ladies from a West Texas women's
college, the self-described New England spinster Hannah Jelkes and her ninety-seven-year-old grandfather, Jonathan Coffin (��he world's oldest living and practicing poet��, a family of
grotesque Nazi vacationers, and an iguana tied by its throat to the veranda, all find themselves assembled for a rainy and turbulent night.
This is the first trade paperback edition of The Night of the Iguana and comes with an Introduction by award-winning playwright Doug Wright, the author's original Foreword, the short
story ��he Night of the Iguana��which was the germ for the play, plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar, Kenneth Holditch.
��'m tired of conducting services in praise and worship of a senile delinquent--yeah, that's what I said, I shouted! All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on
the concept of God as a senile delinquent and, by God, I will not and cannot continue to conduct services in praise and worship of this璽�玲宇his璽�玲宇his angry, petulant old man.��/em>
--The Rev. T. Lawrence Shannon, from The Night of the Iguana
