The Sally Bowles character was the subject of a play, I am a camera; and a musical, Cabaret.

A rather rustic and very bohemian hotel in Mexico is the scene where, in 1940, several bizarre groups meet: Shannon, a defrocked Episcopal priest; Hannah, virginal and artistic; Maxine, the unbuttoned and recently widowed proprietress of the hotel; and more.

"Poet, translator, essayist and voracious reader--Kenneth Rexroth was an omnivore in the fields of literature. The brief, radiant essays of Classics Revisted discuss sixty key books that are, for Rexroth, "basic documents in the history of the imagination." Ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Huckleberry Finn, these pieces (each three or four pages long) originally appeared in the Saturday Review."--Back cover.

Dragon Country, the country of pain, is an uninhabitable country which is inhabited. Williams expresses the theme of endured but unendurable pain which runs through all of these eight plays.