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Now published for the first time as a trade paperback with a new introduction and the short story on which it was based. Williams wrote: �This 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 (�the 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 �The Night of the Iguana� which was the germ for the play, plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar, Kenneth Holditch. �I�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�this�this angry, petulant old man.� �The Rev. T. Lawrence Shannon, from The Night of the Iguana