NMLP P-030649 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Suddenly Last Summer

Tennessee Williams · New Directions · 1958

US New Directions is the true first edition of the standalone play. The play premiered off-Broadway in January 1958 within the double bill Garden District, paired with the one-act Something Unspoken; the London Garden District collection (Secker and Warburg) followed in 1959. George W. Crandell's descriptive bibliography of Williams is the standard authority for confirming first-issue points.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-030649 for "Suddenly Last Summer" by Tennessee Williams (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-030649, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).