A collection of fifteen original essays by new and established Tennessee Williams scholars look at aspects of the author's work from several critical perspectives, investigating major and less-known plays, his poems, fiction, films and non-fictional writings. Desire turns out to be not only the title of his best known play, but also the signature theme of all of Williams's literary output. Transcultural issues, intersemiotic analyses, queer studies or comparative readings with Shakespeare, Robert Browning, and Marina Carr are same of the approaches chosen by the team of scholars who put this book together.