...smiles vaguely over his drink.} Close on ten million in cash an' blue-chip stocks, outside, mind you, of twenty-eight thousand acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile! [A puff and crackle and the night sky blooms with an eerie greenish glow. Children shriek on...

...belonging to a queer-baiting fraternity at Ole Miss.) Even closer to home, he has inherited his plantation (twenty-eight thousand acres of the richest land this side of the Valley Nile) from the homosexual couple Jack Straw and Peter Ochello. They took him in when he was young and...

...the so-called "'gay' plantation" supplied TW with lines spoken by Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: "Twenty-eight thousand acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile!" (Act Two). A local historian has speculated that "Bud and Dale's" may be one of the so-called...

...like Boss Whalen, he attempts to exert that power on two fronts. As a successful plantation owner "of twenty-eight thousand acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile!" (86), he has amassed great wealth and possesses social power similar to an institutional patriarch....

...same little monkeys. All I want is BIG DADDY: 'LEAVE TH' PLACE,' did you say? BRICK: [vaguely}: All twenty-eight thousand acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile. BIG DADDY: Who said I was 'leaving the place' to Gooper or anybody? This is my sixty-fifth birthday!...

...smiles vaguely over his drink.} Close on ten million in cash an' blue-chip stocks, outside, mind you, of twenty-eight thousand acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile! But a man can't buy his life with it, he can't buy back his life with it when his life has been...

...The play thus establishes a line of inheritance and continuity for gay men, because the possession of "twenty-eight thousand acres of the richest land this side of the Valley Nile," has passed from Straw and Ochello to Big Daddy, whose own queer identity I shall discuss in...

...to go up to the rooftop of the house to overlook his plantation — "before I give up my kingdom — twenty-eight thousand acres of the richest land this side of the Valley Nile!" Big Mama rushes after him.34 The Broadway version also underscores even more resolutely the...

...find freedom and fulfillment only in the tabula rasa of nature. Huck and Jim belong on a raft, not on twenty-eight thousand acres of the richest land this side of the Valley Nile, hi Straw and Ochello, Williams subverts the American myth of male companionship not just by making...