Vieux Carré

Vieux Carré PDF Author: Tennessee Williams (Dramatiker)
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ISBN: 9780811212014
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Languages : en
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Vieux Carré

Vieux Carré PDF Author: Tennessee Williams (Dramatiker)
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ISBN: 9780811212014
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Languages : en
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The Red Devil Battery Sign

The Red Devil Battery Sign PDF Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780811210478
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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This book is William's symbol for the military-industrial complex and all the dehumanizing trends it represents from mindless cocktail party chatter to bribery of officials to assassination plots directed against those who won't play the game, to attempted coups by right-wing zealots.

Clothes for a Summer Hotel

Clothes for a Summer Hotel PDF Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811208710
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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This late play by Tennessee Williams explores the troubled relationship between F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.

A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur PDF Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207577
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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In this masterful play, Tennessee Williams explores the meaning of loneliness and the need for human connection through the lens of four women and the designs and desires they harbor--for themselves and for each other.

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams PDF Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214759
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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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.

A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams

A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams PDF Author: Stephen Bottoms
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472528727
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams provides the essential guide to Williams' most studied and revived dramas. Authored by a team of leading scholars, it offers students a clear analysis and detailed commentary on four of Williams' plays: The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth. A consistent framework of analysis ensures that whether readers are wanting a summary of the play, a commentary on the themes or characters, or a discussion of the work in performance, they can readily find what they need to develop their understanding and aid their appreciation of Williams' artistry. A chronology of the writer's life and work helps to situate all his works in context and the introduction reinforces this by providing a clear overview of Williams' writing, its recurrent themes and concerns and how these are intertwined with his life and times. For each play the author provides a summary of the plot, followed by commentary on: * The context * Themes * Characters * Structure and language * The play in production (both on stage and screen adaptations) Questions for study, and notes on words and phrases in the text are also supplied to aid the reader. The wealth of authoritative and clear commentary on each play, together with further questions that encourage comparison across Williams' work and related plays by other leading writers, ensures that this is the clearest and fullest guide to Williams' greatest plays.

Camino Real

Camino Real PDF Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811226239
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Now with a new introduction, the author's original Foreword and Afterword, the one-act play 10 Blocks on the Camino Real, plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar, Michael Paller. In this phantasmagorical play, the Camino Real is a dead end, a police state in a vaguely Latin American country, and an inescapable condition. Characters from history and literature—Don Quixote, Casanova, Camille, Lord Byron—inhabit a place where corruption and indifference have immobilized and nearly destroyed the human spirit. Then, into this netherworld, the archetypal Kilroy arrives—a sailor and all-American guy with “a heart as big as the head of baby.” Celebrated American playwright John Guare has written an illuminative Introduction for this edition. Also included are Williams’ original Foreword and Afterword to the play, the one-act play Ten Blocks on the Camino Real, plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar Michael Paller.

The Traveling Companion and Other Plays

The Traveling Companion and Other Plays PDF Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217088
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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"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.

A House Not Meant to Stand

A House Not Meant to Stand PDF Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217095
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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The spellbinding last full-length play produced during the author's lifetime is now published for the first time.

Southern Writers

Southern Writers PDF Author: Joseph M. Flora
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807148555
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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This new edition of Southern Writers assumes its distinguished predecessor's place as the essential reference on literary artists of the American South. Broadly expanded and thoroughly revised, it boasts 604 entries-nearly double the earlier edition's-written by 264 scholars. For every figure major and minor, from the venerable and canonical to the fresh and innovative, a biographical sketch and chronological list of published works provide comprehensive, concise, up-to-date information. Here in one convenient source are the South's novelists and short story writers, poets and dramatists, memoirists and essayists, journalists, scholars, and biographers from the colonial period to the twenty-first century. What constitutes a "southern writer" is always a matter for debate. Editors Joseph M. Flora and Amber Vogel have used a generous definition that turns on having a significant connection to the region, in either a personal or literary sense. New to this volume are younger writers who have emerged in the quarter century since the dictionary's original publication, as well as older talents previously unknown or unacknowledged. For almost every writer found in the previous edition, a new biography has been commissioned. Drawn from the very best minds on southern literature and covering the full spectrum of its practitioners, Southern Writers is an indispensable reference book for anyone intrigued by the subject.