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Something Cloudy, Something Clear

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811225925
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Something Cloudy, Something Clear written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1996-09-17 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tennessee Williams returns to a pivotal moment in his stormy youth in Something Cloudy, Something Clear, which introducer Eve Adamson calls "a delicately woven tapestry of past and present, vulnerability and toughness, impetuous action and mature insight." Something Cloudy, Something Clear is, as Tennessee Williams stated, "one of the most personal plays I’ve ever written." Set in Provincetown, Cape Cod, in 1940, the play records Williams’ experiences during that "pivotal summer when I took sort of a crash course in growing up." On the brink of becoming a successful playwright, Williams was also to "come thoroughly out of the closet" and meet Kip, his first great love. Something Cloudy, Something Clearbrilliantly reimagines that long ago time, now recollected through the filter of all the playwright’s successes and failures, joys and regrets. Eve Adamson, director of the original 1981 production, provides an insightful introduction in which she captures the play’s heart-breaking appeal: "It is a delicately woven tapestry of past and present, vulnerability and toughness, impetuous action and mature insight. It seeks a reconciliation between love and art, life and death, and-to use two phrases which recur in the play––exigencies of desperation and negotiation of terms. The cloudy and the clear."

Something Cloudy, Something Clear

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811213110
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Something Cloudy, Something Clear written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The playwright dramatizes his experiences in Cape Cod during the pivotal summer of 1940, when he met his first great love and openly acknowledged his homosexuality.

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811211963
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Tennessee Williams written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1971 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume III of the series includes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Orpheus Descending (1957), and Suddenly Last Summer (1958). The first, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Award, has proved every bit as successful as William's earlier A Streetcar Named Desire. The other two plays, though different in kind, both have something of the quality of Greek tragedy in 20th-century settings, bringing about catharsis through ritual death.

The Traveling Companion and Other Plays

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811217088
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Traveling Companion and Other Plays written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Collected here for the first time, these twelve plays embrace what Time magazine called "the four major concerns of Williams' dramatic imagination: loneliness, love, the violated heart and the valiancy of survival"--Back cover.

Spring Storm

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811214223
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Spring Storm written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crucible of so many elements that would later shape and characterize Williams's work.--World Literature Today

Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811225321
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Book Synopsis Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer by : Tennessee Williams

Download or read book Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of Tennessee Williams's most revered dramas in a single paperback edition for the first time. Orpheus Descending is a love story, a plea for spiritual and artistic freedom, as well as a portrait of racism and intolerance. When charismatic drifter Valentine Xavier arrives in a Mississippi Delta town with his guitar and snakeskin jacket, he becomes a trigger for hatred and a magnet for three outcast souls: storekeeper Lady Torrance, “lewd vagrant” Carol Cutrere, and religious visionary Vee Talbot. Suddenly Last Summer, described by its author as a “short morality play,” has become one of his most notorious works due in no small part to the film version starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift that shocked audiences in 1959. A menacing tale of madness, jealousy, and denial,the horrors in Suddenly Last Summer build to a heart-stopping conclusion. With perceptive new introductions by playwright Martin Sherman — he reframes Orpheus Descending in a political context and explores the psychology and sensationalism surrounding Suddenly Last Summer — this volume also offers Williams’s related essay, “The Past, the Present, and the Perhaps,” and a chronology of the playwright’s life and works.

The Magic Tower and Other One-act Plays

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811219204
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book The Magic Tower and Other One-act Plays written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume gathers some of Williams' most exuberant early work and includes one-acts that he would later expand to powerful full-length dramas, including "The Pretty Trap," a cheerful take on "The Glass Menagerie," and "Interior: Panic," a stunning precursor to "A Streetcar Named Desire."

Gentlemen Callers

Author : Michael Paller
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403967756
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Gentlemen Callers written by Michael Paller and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-04-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Vieux Carre

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811225933
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Vieux Carre written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2000-10-17 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born out of the journals the playwright kept at the time, Tennessee Williams's Vieux Carré is not emotion recollected in tranquility, but emotion re-created with all the pain, compassion, and wry humor of the playwright's own 1938-39 sojourn in the New Orleans French Quarter vividly intact. The drama takes it form from the shifting scenes of memory, and Williams's surrogate self invites us to focus, in turn, on the various inhabitants or his dilapidated rooming house in the Vieux Carré: the comically desperate landlady, Mrs. Wire; Jane, a properly brought-up young woman from New York making at last grab at pleasure with Tye, the vulgar but appealing strip-joint barker; two decayed gentlewomen politely starving in the garret; and the dying painter Nightingale, who tries to teach the young writer something about love--both of the body and of the heart. This is a play about the education of the artist, and education in loneliness and despair, in giving and not giving, but most of all in seeing, hearing, feeling, and learning that "writers are shameless spies," who pay dearly for their knowledge and who cannot forget. Building on two decades of Williams scholarship since Vieux Carré was originally published, Robert Bray, editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, has provided a new introduction for this edition, giving the most authoritative account yet of its background and genesis.

Mister Paradise and Other One-act Plays

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811216203
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Mister Paradise and Other One-act Plays written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen previously unpublished short plays now available for the first time.

Not about Nightingales

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573627118
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Not about Nightingales written by Tennessee Williams and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never produced until this year (1998), NOT ABOUT NIGHTINGALES (1938), portrays a shocking prison scandal in which convicts leading a hunger strike in prison were locked in a steam-heated cell and roasted to death. Williams himself later said that he had never written anything to compare with it in violence and horror. The play indelibly presages the great plays he was later to write. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

A House Not Meant to Stand: A Gothic Comedy

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811226352
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book A House Not Meant to Stand: A Gothic Comedy written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spellbinding last full-length play produced during the author's lifetime is now published for the first time. Christmas 1982: Cornelius and Bella McCorkle of Pascagoula, Mississippi, return home one midnight in a thunderstorm from the Memphis funeral of their older son to a house and a life literally falling apart--daughter Joanie is in an insane asylum and their younger son Charlie is upstairs having sex with his pregnant, holy-roller girlfriend as the McCorkles enter. Cornelius, who has political ambitions and a litany of health problems, is trying to find a large amount of moonshine money his gentle wife Bella has hidden somewhere in their collapsing house, but his noisy efforts are disrupted by a stream of remarkable characters, both living and dead. While Williams often used drama to convey hope and desperation in human hearts, it was through this dark, expressionistic comedy, which he called a "Southern gothic spook sonata," that he was best able to chronicle his vision of the fragile state of our world.

Stopped Rocking and Other Screenplays

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811209021
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Stopped Rocking and Other Screenplays written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1984 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Tennessee Williams died in the winter of 1983 he left among his voluminous papers the texts of four screenplays none of which had been made into or was even being considered for a film at that time.

New Selected Essays

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811217286
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book New Selected Essays written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There isn't a dull or conventional page, or an unlovely sentence in the book."--Scott Eyman, The Palm Beach Post

One Arm and Other Stories

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book One Arm and Other Stories written by Tennessee Williams and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dangerous Friends

Author : Peter Viertel
Publisher : Nan A. Talese
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Friends written by Peter Viertel and published by Nan A. Talese. This book was released on 1992 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, once an aspiring screenwriter, recalls Hemingway's and Huston's influences, Hemingway's tendency toward self-caricature, and Huston's self-absorption.

Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws & Other One-Act Plays

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811225577
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws & Other One-Act Plays written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays—like firecrackers in a rope.” —Tennessee Williams This new collection of fantastic, lesser-known one-acts contains some of Williams’s most potent, comical and disturbing short plays?Upper East Side ladies dine out during the apocalypse in Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws, while the poet Hart Crane is confronted by his mother at the bottom of the ocean in Steps Must Be Gentle. Five previously unpublished plays include A Recluse and His Guest, and The Strange Play, in which we witness a woman’s entire life lived within a twenty-four-hour span. This volume is edited, with an introduction and notes, by the editor, acting teacher, and theater scholar Thomas Keith.