Book Description
This book explores Williams' late plays in terms of a 'theatre of excess', which seeks liberation through exaggeration, chaos, ambiguity, and laughter.
Author : Annette J. Saddik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 23,29 MB
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1107076684
This book explores Williams' late plays in terms of a 'theatre of excess', which seeks liberation through exaggeration, chaos, ambiguity, and laughter.
Author : Annette J. Saddik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,51 MB
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1316240681
The plays of Tennessee Williams' post-1961 period have often been misunderstood and dismissed. In light of Williams' centennial in 2011, which was marked internationally by productions and world premieres of his late plays, Annette J. Saddik's new reading of these works illuminates them in the context of what she terms a 'theatre of excess', which seeks liberation through exaggeration, chaos, ambiguity, and laughter. Saddik explains why they are now gaining increasing acclaim, and analyzes recent productions that successfully captured elements central to Williams' late aesthetic, particularly a delicate balance of laughter and horror with a self-consciously ironic acting style. Grounding the plays through the work of Bakhtin, Artaud, and Kristeva, as well as through the carnivalesque, the grotesque, and psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer theory, Saddik demonstrates how Williams engaged the freedom of exaggeration and excess in celebration of what he called 'the strange, the crazed, the queer'.
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 28,14 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 : New Directions Publishing
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780811204170
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.
Author : Richard Eberhart
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,70 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811212861
Poems deal with truth, religion, nature, thought, the role of poetry, death, visions, age, and the past.
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 1981
Category :
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Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher :
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 1971
Category : American drama
ISBN :
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New York : New Directions
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 30,64 MB
Release : 1971
Category : American drama
ISBN :
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.
Author : Brenda Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,27 MB
Release : 1992-02-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521400954
This is a book-length study of the intense creative relationship between Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan.
Author : Jacqueline O’Connor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1611478944
Gender and cultural studies readings of Tennessee Williams’s work have provided diverse perspectives on his complex representations of sexuality, whether of himself as an openly gay man, or of his characters, many of whom narrate or dramatize sexual attitudes or behavior that cross heteronormative boundaries of the mid-century period. Several of these studies have positioned Williams and his work amid the public tensions in American life over roughly four decades, from 1940–1980, as notions of equality and freedom of choice challenged prejudice and repression in law and in society. To date, however, neither Williams’s homosexuality nor his persistent representations of sexual transgressions have been examined as legal matters that challenged the rule of law. Directed by legal history and informed by multiple strands of Williams’s studies criticism, textual, and cultural, this book explores the interplay of select topics defined and debated in law’s texts with those same topics in Williams’s personal and imaginative texts. By tracing the obscure and the transparent representations of homosexuality, specifically, and diverse sexualities more generally, through selected stories and plays, the book charts the intersections between Williams’s literature and the laws that governed the period. His imaginative works, backlit by his personal documents and historical and legal records from the period, underscore his preoccupation with depictions of diverse sexualities throughout his career. His use of legal language and its varied effects on his texts demonstrate his work’s multiple and complex intersection with major twentieth-century concerns, including significant legal and cultural dialogues about identity formation, intimacy, privacy, and difference.