Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws & Other One-Act Plays

by Tennessee Williams

First published 2016

In this collection of Tennessee Williams' wildly original late-career one-acts, the eccentric and the unsettling collide. From Upper East Side socialites dining out during the apocalypse to a psychiatrist and his unhinged patient, these surreal, darkly comic plays burrow into the twisted heart of the human condition.

Genres: fiction, drama, plays, 20th-century

Vibes: dark, emotional, intimate, thought-provoking

Tropes: dark-protagonist, unreliable-narrator

Setting: Upper East Side

Period: 20th Century

208 pages · Paperback · New Directions

Content warnings: mental-illness, violence

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