Book Description
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 : 700 pages
File Size : 10,6 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 : 612 pages
File Size : 22,63 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780811215275
Tennessee Williams wrote to family, friends and fellow artists with equal measures of piety, wit, and astute self-knowledge. Presented with a running commentary to separate Williams' often hilarious, but sometimes devious, counter-reality from the truth, the letters form a kind of autobiography.
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 47,60 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811214452
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 :
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 15,30 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Dramatists, American
ISBN : 9780811216005
Author : Devlin
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,5 MB
Release : 2005-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781840022964
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,74 MB
Release : 2007-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811217224
Volume I of The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams ends with the unexpected triumph of The Glass Menagerie. Volume II extends the correspondence from 1946 to 1957, a time of intense creativity which saw the production of A Streetcar Named Desire, The Rose Tattoo, Camino Real, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Following the immense success of Streetcar, Williams struggles to retain his prominence with a prodigious outpouring of stories, poetry, and novels as well as plays. Several major film projects, including the notorious Baby Doll, bring Williams and his collaborator Elia Kazan into conflict with powerful agencies of censorship, exposing both the conservative landscape of the 1950s and Williams' own studied resistance to the forces of conformity. Letters written to Kazan, Carson McCullers, Gore Vidal, publisher James Laughlin, and Audrey Wood, Williams' resourceful agent, continue earlier lines of correspondence and introduce new celebrity figures. The Broadway and Hollywood successes in the evolving career of America's premier dramatist vie with a string of personal losses and a deepening depression to make this period an emotional and artistic rollercoaster for Tennessee. Compiled by leading Williams scholars Albert J. Devlin, Professor of English at the University of Missouri, and Nancy M. Tischler, Professor Emerita of English at the Pennsylvania State University, Volume II maintains the exacting standard of Volume I, called by Choice: "a volume that will prove indispensable to all serious students of this author...meticulous annotations greatly increase the value of this gathering."
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 17,74 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 : 340 pages
File Size : 43,28 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811217286
"There isn't a dull or conventional page, or an unlovely sentence in the book."--Scott Eyman, The Palm Beach Post
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,87 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 : 136 pages
File Size : 50,40 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780811214353
A play produced only twice in the 1940s and now published for the first time reveals that Tennessee Williams anticipated the themes of Star Trek by decades.