Volume 1 leads with <em>Battle of Angels</em>, William's first produced play (1940), an early version of <em>Orpheus Descending</em>. This is followed by the texts of his first great popular successes: <em>The Glass Menagerie</em> (1945) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning <em>A Streetcar Named Desire</em> (1947), which established Williams's reputation once and for all as a genius of the modern American theatre.
