Solving The Mystery Of Tennessee Williams' CAMINO REAL

CAMINO REAL is the strangest and most mysterious but most evocative and symbolic play of Tennessee Williams, which some believe is his best play. Kilroy, the lead character, finds himself in an odd town, the Camino Real, after getting off a tramp steamer where he had been working.

What is this place? How can characters like Casanova, Camille, Lord Byron, and Esmeralda be here? Who, really, is Don Quixote? What really is taking place? Where will Kilroy wind up? What is the Royal Road vs. the Real Road? What can Williams possibly mean by writing that Esmeralda becomes a virgin again during each full moon?

This play has never before been properly explained, because critics have looked at it from either a realistic or strictly symbolic viewpoint. Now, however, this tale is put under a literary microscope using a metaphysical lens, which brilliantly reveals what story Williams is really telling.

There has never been a metaphysical play like this written in the Western world, and this story blazes with Williams’ genius. For the first time, the underlying meaning of this hugely metaphysical play is revealed by George Schwimmer, Ph.D., who worked as a theatre director over a thirty year period and who dissects the script from a director’s viewpoint.

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