Tennessee Williams, Camino Real

Nicholas Moschovakis (Independent Scholar - North America)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1953

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Play

Resources

Text, Title, and Style

An early draft of the play was published in 1948 as Ten Blocks on the Camino Real: A Fantasy (American Blues 43–77). The later, longer version discussed here appeared in print in 1953—the year of the play’s first staging on Broadway. Note, however, that this published Camino Real represents a considerably revised version of the actual Broadway production script. It is a reading text, not a record of theatrical practice.

The play’s title puns on the Spanish for “Royal Road”, camino real (pronounced “kau-mee-noh reh-aul”), by altering its pronunciation. The new pronunciation (“kah-mih-noh reel”) …

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Citation: Moschovakis, Nicholas. "Camino Real". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 June 2008 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6081, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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