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"The Glass Menagerie marked a crucial turning point in American theater, and forever changed the life of its then unknown author. Williamss elegiac masterpiece brought a radical new lyricism to Broadway the tragedy, fragility, and tenderness of this 'memory play' have made it one of Americas most powerful, timeless, and compelling plays. The introduction by Tony Kushner sparkles with the kind of rich, unique insight that only a fellow playwright...
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New Directions paperbook ; 694, 736, 797, 919
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New Directions
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English
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The theatre of Tennessee Williams presents, in matching format, the plays of one of America's most consistently influential and innovative dramatists. The first five volumes of this ongoing series contain Williams' full-length plays through 1975 and, in addition to the texts themselves, include original cast listings and production notes. Volumes VI and VII contain Williams' collected shorter plays.
Now available as a paperbook, Volume VIII adds...
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New Directions
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English
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"Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son." --
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The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on its author, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister Laura. A faded Southern belle, abandoned by her husband, who is trying to raise her two children under harsh financial conditions. Amanda yearns for the comforts of her youth and also longs for her children to have the same comforts, but her devotion to them has made her -- as she admits at one point -- almost...
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New Directions Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
[1991]
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English
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Baby doll: Cast gender - mixed; number - 2 males, 3 females (total main cast 5). Set in a dilapidated plantation mansion in Mississippi, the child wife of a broken-down cotton miller is seduced by her husband's revenge-seeking rival.
Tiger tail: Cast gender - mixed; number - 5 males, 4 females (total 9); size - medium; length - 2 acts, 4 scenes. Set in set in rural Mississippi. Story of a cuckolded husband, young wife and lover.
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams. Published in 1950, his first novel was acclaimed by Gore Vidal as "splendidly written, precise, short, complete, and fine." It is the story of a wealthy, fiftyish American widow recently a famous stage beauty, but now "drifting." The novel opens soon after her husband's death and her retirement from the theatre, as Mrs. Stone tries to adjust to her aimless new life in Rome. She is adjusting,...
10) Plays 1937-1955
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Library of America ; 119
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2000]
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English
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Profiles the works of Tennessee Williams and provides information on his life and writing career.
12) Plays 1957-1980
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Library of America ; 120
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Library of America
Pub. Date
[2000]
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English
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New Directions Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
[1985]
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English
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The vengeance of Nitocris -- A lady's beaded bag -- Something by Tolstoi -- Big black: a Mississippi idyll -- The accent of a coming foot -- Twenty seven wagons full of cotton -- Sand -- Ten minute stop -- Gift of an apple -- The field of blue children -- In memory of an aristocrat -- The dark room -- The mysteries of the Joy Rio -- Portrait of a girl in glass -- The angel in the alcove -- Oriflamme -- The vine -- The malediction -- The important...
14) Vieux Carré
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New Directions Pub. Corp
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1979.
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English
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"Tennessee Williams's Vieux Carré is not emotion recollected in tranquility but emotion re-created with all the pain, compassion, and wry humor of the playwright's own 1938 sojourn in the New Orleans French Quarter vividly intact"--From dust jacket flap.
16) Summer and smoke
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New Directions
Pub. Date
[1948]
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English
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"This play tells "the story of a minister's daughter in the stagnant little town of Glorious Hill, Mississippi, and a love affair thwarted by her inhibitions."" --