Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213622
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Offers Williams' adaptation of a late nineteenth-century drama about an actress' rejection of the advances of a melancholy, lovesick young man.
The Notebook of Trigorin
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213622
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Offers Williams' adaptation of a late nineteenth-century drama about an actress' rejection of the advances of a melancholy, lovesick young man.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213622
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Offers Williams' adaptation of a late nineteenth-century drama about an actress' rejection of the advances of a melancholy, lovesick young man.
The Notebook of Trigorin
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822215974
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
THE STORY: On his Uncle Sorin's lakeside estate, Constantine's new play premieres to disdainful reactions from the family and friends who have gathered: Masha; her future husband Medvedenko; Dorn, a lecherous doctor; Shamrayev, manager of the estat
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822215974
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
THE STORY: On his Uncle Sorin's lakeside estate, Constantine's new play premieres to disdainful reactions from the family and friends who have gathered: Masha; her future husband Medvedenko; Dorn, a lecherous doctor; Shamrayev, manager of the estat
Spring Storm
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214223
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A crucible of so many elements that would later shape and characterize Williams's work.--World Literature Today
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214223
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A crucible of so many elements that would later shape and characterize Williams's work.--World Literature Today
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811211963
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
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.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811211963
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
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
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217088
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"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.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217088
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"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.
Not about Nightingales
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213806
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
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.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213806
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
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.
Stairs to the Roof
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214353
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
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.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214353
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
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.
Clothes for a Summer Hotel
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811208710
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
This late play by Tennessee Williams explores the troubled relationship between F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811208710
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
This late play by Tennessee Williams explores the troubled relationship between F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
Tennessee Williams
Author: Robert Gross
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135673616
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135673616
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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.
Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811225321
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
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.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811225321
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
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.