Author : Nancy M. Tischler
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 10,15 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Dramatists, American
ISBN :
Shows the relationship of Tennessee Williams' life and work and discusses each play.
Author : Nancy Marie Patterson TISCHLER
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,62 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Dramatists, American
ISBN :
Author : Nancy M. Tischler
Publisher :
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 1965
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Robert Gross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 12,51 MB
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135673616
Tennessee Williams' plays are performed around the world, and are staples of the standard American repertory. His famous portrayals of women engage feminist critics, and as America's leading gay playwright from the repressive postwar period, through Stonewall, to the growth of gay liberation, he represents an important and controversial figure for queer theorists. Gross and his contributors have included all of his plays, a chronology, introduction and bibliography.
Author : Matthew C. Roudané
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 10,48 MB
Release : 1997-12-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521498838
This is a collection of thirteen original essays from a team of leading scholars in the field. In this wide-ranging volume, the contributors cover a healthy sampling of Williams's works, from the early apprenticeship years in the 1930s through to his last play before his death in 1983, Something Cloudy, Something Clear. In addition to essays on such major plays as The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, among others, the contributors also consider selected minor plays, short stories, poems, and biographical concerns. The Companion also features a chapter on selected key productions as well as a bibliographic essay surveying the major critical statements on Williams.
Author : Lincoln Konkle
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 11,79 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826264972
"Fresh examination of the works of Thornton Wilder emphasizing continuities in American literature from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. Sees Wilder as a literary descendant of Edward Taylor who drew from the Puritan worldview and tradition. Includes indepth readings of Shadow of a Doubt, The Trumpet Shall Sound, and others"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Michael S. D. Hooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1107379121
Michael S. D. Hooper reverses the recent trend of regarding Tennessee Williams as fundamentally a social writer following the discovery, publication and/or performance of plays from both ends of his career - the 'proletarian' apprentice years of Candles to the Sun and Not About Nightingales and the once overlooked final period of, amongst many other plays, The Red Devil Battery Sign. Hooper contends that recent criticism has exaggerated the political engagement and egalitarian credentials of a writer whose characters and situations revert to a reactionary politics of the individual dominated by the negotiation of sexual power. Directly, or more often indirectly, Williams' writing expresses social disaffection before glamorising the outcast and shelving thoughts of political change. Through detailed analysis of canonical texts the book sheds new light on Williams' work, as well as on the cultural and social life of mid-twentieth-century America.
Author : Thomas Adler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,95 MB
Release : 2012-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1350310123
A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) are major plays by Tennessee Williams, one of America's most significant dramatists. They both received landmark productions and are widely-studied and performed around the world. The plays have also inspired popular screen adaptations and have generated a body of important and lasting scholarship. In this indispensable Reader's Guide, Thomas P. Adler: - Charts the development of the criticism surrounding both works, from the mid-twentieth century through to the present day - Provides a readable assessment of the key debates and issues - Examines a range of theoretical approaches from biographical and New Criticism to feminist and queer theory In so doing, Adler helps us to appreciate why these plays continue to fascinate readers, theatregoers and directors alike.
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780811216005
Features letters written by the American playwright, revealing his childhood experiences, college years struggling with goals, grades, and money, and his emerging relationships.
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780811214452
In a series of amusing rules, cellist Alice McVeigh describes exactly how to succeed in the music profession (or not?). Fruity, feisty and fizzy, and adorned with cartoons by Private Eye's Noel Ford - All Risks Musical is the book every conductor will want to ban.
