A Student Handbook To The Plays Of Tennessee Williams

Author : Stephen Bottoms,Philip Kolin,Michael Hooper
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472528728

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A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams by Stephen Bottoms,Philip Kolin,Michael Hooper Pdf

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.

Author : Stephen James Bottoms,Patricia Hern,Michael S. D. Hooper,Philip C. Kolin,Katherine Weiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : American drama
ISBN : 1472522745

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A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams by Stephen James Bottoms,Patricia Hern,Michael S. D. Hooper,Philip C. Kolin,Katherine Weiss Pdf

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.

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811217086

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The Traveling Companion and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams Pdf

"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 : 436 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811211967

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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams Pdf

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 : Alan Ackerman
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408185681

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A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller by Alan Ackerman Pdf

A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller provides the essential guide to Miller's most studied and revived dramas. Authored by a team of leading scholars, it offers students a clear analysis and detailed commentary on five of Miller's plays: All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge and Broken Glass. A consistent framework of analysis ensures that whether readers want 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 Miller's artistry. A chronology of Miller's life and work helps to situate his oeuvre in context and the introduction reinforces this by providing a clear overview of his writing, its recurrent themes 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, and the play in production - both on stage and screen adaptations; there are questions for further study and detailed notes on words and phrases in the text. The wealth of authoritative and clear commentary on each play, together with further questions that encourage comparison across Miller's work and related plays by other leading writers, ensures that this is the clearest and fullest guide to Miller's greatest plays.

Author : Tennessee Williams,Terrence McNally
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811219208

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The Magic Tower and Other One-act Plays by Tennessee Williams,Terrence McNally Pdf

This new volume gathers some of Williams' most exuberant early work and includes one-acts that he would later expand to powerful full-length dramas, including "The Pretty Trap," a cheerful take on "The Glass Menagerie," and "Interior: Panic," a stunning precursor to "A Streetcar Named Desire."

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811214222

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Spring Storm by Tennessee Williams Pdf

A crucible of so many elements that would later shape and characterize Williams's work.--World Literature Today

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Dramatists, American
ISBN : 0811217221

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The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams Pdf

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811209024

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Stopped Rocking and Other Screenplays by Tennessee Williams Pdf

When Tennessee Williams died in the winter of 1983 he left among his voluminous papers the texts of four screenplays none of which had been made into or was even being considered for a film at that time.

Author : John Lahr
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393247121

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Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr Pdf

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: Biography Category National Book Award Finalist 2015 Winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award A Chicago Tribune 'Best Books of 2014' USA Today: 10 Books We Loved Reading Washington Post, 10 Best Books of 2014 The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker. John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater and the nation's sense of itself. This astute, deeply researched biography sheds a light on Tennessee Williams's warring family, his guilt, his creative triumphs and failures, his sexuality and numerous affairs, his misreported death, even the shenanigans surrounding his estate. With vivid cameos of the formative influences in Williams's life—his fierce, belittling father Cornelius; his puritanical, domineering mother Edwina; his demented sister Rose, who was lobotomized at the age of thirty-three; his beloved grandfather, the Reverend Walter Dakin—Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh is as much a biography of the man who created A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as it is a trenchant exploration of Williams’s plays and the tortured process of bringing them to stage and screen. The portrait of Williams himself is unforgettable: a virgin until he was twenty-six, he had serial homosexual affairs thereafter as well as long-time, bruising relationships with Pancho Gonzalez and Frank Merlo. With compassion and verve, Lahr explores how Williams's relationships informed his work and how the resulting success brought turmoil to his personal life. Lahr captures not just Williams’s tempestuous public persona but also his backstage life, where his agent Audrey Wood and the director Elia Kazan play major roles, and Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Bette Davis, Maureen Stapleton, Diana Barrymore, and Tallulah Bankhead have scintillating walk-on parts. This is a biography of the highest order: a book about the major American playwright of his time written by the major American drama critic of his time.

Author : Tennessee Willams,The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop مكتبة الأنجلو المصرية
Publisher : The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Willams,The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop مكتبة الأنجلو المصرية Pdf

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811216209

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Mister Paradise and Other One-act Plays by Tennessee Williams Pdf

Thirteen previously unpublished short plays now available for the first time.

Author : Philip Kolin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313007729

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Tennessee Williams by Philip Kolin Pdf

The plays of Tennessee Williams are some of the greatest triumphs of the American theatre. If Williams is not the most important American playwright, he surely is one of the two or three most celebrated, rivaled only by Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller. In a career that spanned almost five decades, he created an extensive canon of more than 70 plays. His contributions to the American theatre are inestimable and revolutionary. The Glass Menagerie (1945) introduced poetic realism to the American stage; A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) explored sexual and psychological issues that had never before been portrayed in American culture; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) dared to challenge the political and sexual mores of the Eisenhower era; and his plays of the 1970s are among the most innovative works produced on the American stage. But Williams was far more than a gifted and prolific playwright. He created two collections of poetry, two novels, four collections of stories, memoirs, and scores of essays. Because of his towering presence in American drama, Williams has attracted the attention of some of the most insightful scholars and critics of the twentieth century. The 1990s in particular ushered in a renaissance of Williams research, including a definitive biography, a descriptive bibliography, and numerous books and scholarly articles. This reference book synthesizes the vast body of research on Tennessee Williams and offers a performance history of his works. Under the guidance of one of the leading authorities on Williams, expert contributors have written chapters on each of Williams' works or clusters of works. Each chapter includes a discussion of the biographical context of a work or group of writings; a survey of the bibliographic history; an analysis of major critical approaches, which looks at themes, characters, symbols, and plots; a consideration of the major critical problems posed by the work; an overview of chief productions and film and television versions; a concluding interpretation; and a bibliography of secondary sources. The volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography and a comprehensive index.

Author : Robert Gross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135673543

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Tennessee Williams by Robert Gross Pdf

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 : Nancy M. Tischler
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313312380

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Student Companion to Tennessee Williams by Nancy M. Tischler Pdf

From his earliest success in 1945 with the poignant The Glass Menagerie, until his final curtain call with the 1979 production of The Two-Character Play, Tennessee Williams never stopped experimenting with theatrical techniques and striving to explain his richly provocative ideas. This new critical study of Williams traces the shape of the playwright's life and career, both full of wanderings, failures, love, anguish, and unparalleled triumphs. Incorporating much of the new information that is emerging in the recent publication of letters, biographies, and previously unpublished plays, this Student Companion distills a vast body of scholarship to give a fresh and accessible presentation of the key elements of Williams' complicated works. In-depth analysis of 7 of Williams' plays explore the literary styles, themes, and influences Williams drew from poetry, movies, mythology, religion, and personal experiences. This book allows the general reader and theatre enthusiast a glimpse at the shape of his life, his mind, and his work. Readers will come to appreciate why plays such as A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) have come to be considered American classics. Following the successful series format, this volume introduces readers to Tennessee Williams with a richly detailed biography, followed by a Literary Heritage chapter. A full chapter is devoted to examining each of his major plays. In addition to analysis of character, plot, themes, and style, each play is also given an alternate reading from formal, feminist, psychological, gay, or theological criticism. The concluding bibliography cites all of Williams' dramatic output, as well as his poetry and prose. It also gives many sources for biographical information, criticism of individual works, and original reviews from the first staging of his plays. Students and their teachers should find this volume interesting and easy to follow.