The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

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

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Book Synopsis The Theatre of Tennessee Williams by : Tennessee Williams

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

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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.

Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer

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

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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.

Spring Storm

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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

Battle of Angels

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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822200994
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Battle of Angels by : Tennessee Williams

Download or read book Battle of Angels written by Tennessee Williams and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1975 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As in its later and substantially re-written version (entitled ORPHEUS DESCENDING), the play deals with the arrival of a virile young drifter, Val Xavier, in a sleepy, small town in rural Mississippi. He takes a job in the dry goods stor

New Selected Essays

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811217286
Total Pages : 340 pages
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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

Not about Nightingales

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811213806
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book Not about Nightingales written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Tennessee Williams's first plays, "Not About Nightingales" portrays the lives of inmates in a Pennsylvania prison who were steamed to death after leading their fellow prisoners on a hunger strike.

In the Winter of Cities

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811202220
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book In the Winter of Cities written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1964 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few writers achieve success in more than one genre, and yet if Tennessee Williams had never written a single play he would still be known as a distinguished poet. The excitement, compassion, lyricism, and humor that epitomize his writing for the theater are all present in his poetry. Tennessee Williams's fame as a playwright has unjustly overshadowed his accomplishment in poetry. This paperback edition of In The Winter of Cities-his collected poems to 1962-permits a wider audience to know Williams the poet. The poems in this volume range from songs and short lyrics to personal statements of the greatest intensity and power. They are rich in imagery and illuminated by the psychological intuition which we know so well from Williams's plays.

A House Not Meant to Stand: A Gothic Comedy

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

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Book Synopsis A House Not Meant to Stand: A Gothic Comedy by : Tennessee Williams

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.

The Glass Menagerie

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Publisher : The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Glass Menagerie written by Tennessee Willams and published by The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stopped Rocking and Other Screenplays

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

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Book Synopsis Stopped Rocking and Other Screenplays by : Tennessee Williams

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.

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811204170
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (41 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 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available as a paperbook, Volume VIII adds to the series' four full-length plays written and produced during the last decade of Williams' life.

A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811225410
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1980-05-17 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this masterful play, Tennessee Williams explores the meaning of loneliness and the need for human connection through the lens of four women and the designs and desires they harbor—for themselves and for each other. It is a warm June morning in the West End of St. Louis in the mid-thirties––a lovely Sunday for a picnic at Creve Coeur Lake. But Dorothea, one of Tennessee Williams’s most engaging "marginally youthful," forever hopeful Southern belles, is home waiting for a phone call from the principal of the high school where she teaches civics––the man she expects to fulfill her deferred dreams of romance and matrimony. Williams’s unerring dialogue reveals each of the four characters of A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur with precision and clarity: Dorothea, who does even her "setting-up exercises" with poignant flutters; Bodey, her German roommate, who wants to pair Dotty with her beer-drinking twin, Buddy, thereby assuring nieces, nephews, and a family for both herself and Dotty; Helena, a fellow teacher, with the "eyes of a predatory bird," who would like to "rescue" Dotty from her vulgar, common surroundings and substitute an elegant but sterile spinster life; and Miss Gluck, a newly orphaned and distraught neighbor, whom Bodey comforts with coffee and crullers while Helena mocks them both. Focusing on one morning and one encounter of four women, Williams once again skillfully explores, with comic irony and great tenderness, the meaning of loneliness, the need for human connection, as well as the inevitable compromises one must make to get through "the long run of life."

Notebooks

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300116823
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Notebooks written by Margaret Rose Thornton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meticulously edited and annotated, Tennessee Williams's notebooks follow his growth as a writer from his undergraduate days to the publication and production of his most famous plays, from his drug addiction and drunkenness to the heights of his literary accomplishments.

Mister Paradise and Other One-act Plays

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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.

In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel

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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822205623
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel written by Tennessee Williams and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1969 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As described by New York critic Clive Barnes: Superficially the play is about the painter--famous, rich and lost--and his wife, who find themselves in a Tokyo hotel. The wife, wildly promiscuous, tries to seduce the Japanese barman in the

Suddenly Last Summer

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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822210948
Total Pages : 52 pages
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Download or read book Suddenly Last Summer written by Tennessee Williams and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1986 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Kerr, in the NY Herald-Tribune, describes: This, says Mr. Williams through the most sympathetic voice among his characters, 'is a true story about the time and the world we live in.' He has made it seem true--or at least curiously and su