Editing Summer and Smoke (section)

{{Short description|Play by Tennessee Williams}}
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{{Infobox play|name=Summer and Smoke|image=SummerAndSmoke.JPG|caption=|writer=[[Tennessee Williams]]|setting=Glorious Hill, [[Mississippi]]|premiere={{Start date|1948|10|06}}|place=[[Music Box Theatre]]<br/>[[New York City|New York, N.Y.]]|orig_lang=[[English language|English]]|genre=[[Southern gothic]], [[drama]]|italic title=1|characters={{plainlist |
* Alma Winemiller
* John Buchanan Jr.
* Reverend Winemiller
* Mrs. Winemiller
* Dr. Buchanan
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'''''Summer and Smoke''''' is a two-part, thirteen-scene play by [[Tennessee Williams]], completed in 1948. He began working on the play in 1945 as ''Chart of Anatomy'', derived from his short stories "Oriflamme" and "Yellow Bird", the latter still a work-in-progress.<ref>Tennessee Williams, ''Plays 1937–1955''. Mel Gussow and Kenneth Holditch, eds. New York: Library of America, 2000, p. 1032.  ISBN 1-883011-86-8</ref> The phrase "summer and smoke" probably comes from the [[Hart Crane]] poem "Emblems of Conduct" in the 1926 collection ''[[White Buildings]]''. After a disappointing [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] run in 1948, the play was a hit [[Off-Broadway]] in 1952. Williams continued to revise ''Summer and Smoke'' in the 1950s, and in 1964 he rewrote the play as ''The Eccentricities of a Nightingale''.<ref>Tennessee Williams, ''Plays 1957–1980''. Mel Gussow and Kenneth Holditch, eds. New York: Library of America, 2000, p. 985.  ISBN 1-883011-87-6</ref>