Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Greta Heintzelman
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Dramatists, American
ISBN : 1438108567
One of the greatest American dramatists of the 20th century, Tennessee Williams is known for his sensitive characterizations, poetic yet realistic writing, ironic humor, and depiction, of harsh realties in human relationship. His work is frequently included in high school and college curricula, and his plays are continually produced. Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams includes entries on all of Williams's major and minor works, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie, a novel, a collection of short stories, two poetry collections, and personal essays; places and events related to his works; major figures in his life; his literary influences; and issues in Williams scholarship and criticism. Appendixes include a complete list of Williams's works; a list of research libraries with significant Williams holdings; and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 28,2 MB
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811225321
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.
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780811211963
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.
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 2013-10-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 081122046X
Tennessee Williams's first novel The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams. Published in 1950, his first novel was acclaimed by Gore Vidal as "splendidly written, precise, short, complete, and fine." It is the story of a wealthy, fiftyish American widow recently a famous stage beauty, but now "drifting." The novel opens soon after her husband's death and her retirement from the theatre, as Mrs. Stone tries to adjust to her aimless new life in Rome. She is adjusting, too, to aging. ("The knowledge that her beauty was lost had come upon her recently and it was still occasionally forgotten.") With poignant wit and his own particular brand of relish, Williams charts her drift into an affair with a cruel young gigolo: "As compelling, as fascinating, and as technically skillful as his play" (Publishers Weekly).
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,36 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780811214223
A crucible of so many elements that would later shape and characterize Williams's work.--World Literature Today
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811212694
This definitive collection establishes Williams as a major American fiction writer of the twentieth century.
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,85 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780811217088
"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.
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573627118
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.