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Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws & Other One-Act Plays

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780811225571

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Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws & Other One-Act Plays by Tennessee Williams Pdf

“The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays—like firecrackers in a rope.” —Tennessee Williams This new collection of fantastic, lesser-known one-acts contains some of Williams’s most potent, comical and disturbing short plays?Upper East Side ladies dine out during the apocalypse in Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws, while the poet Hart Crane is confronted by his mother at the bottom of the ocean in Steps Must Be Gentle. Five previously unpublished plays include A Recluse and His Guest, and The Strange Play, in which we witness a woman’s entire life lived within a twenty-four-hour span. This volume is edited, with an introduction and notes, by the editor, acting teacher, and theater scholar Thomas Keith.

The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780811225717

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The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays by Tennessee Williams Pdf

A wonderful collection of never-before-collected one-acts: “The peak of my virtuosity was in the one- act plays. Some of which are like firecrackers in a rope” (Tennessee Williams). Here are portraits of American life during the Great Depression and after, populated by a hopelessly hopeful chorus girl, a munitions manufacturer ensnared in a love triangle, a rural family that deals “justice” on its children, an overconfident mob dandy, a poor couple who quarrel to vanquish despair, a young “spinster” enthralled by the impulse of rebellion, and, in “The Magic Tower,” a passionate artist and his wife whose youth and optimism are not enough to protect their “dream marriage.” This new volume gathers some of Williams’s most exuberant early work and includes one-acts that he would later expand to powerful full-length dramas: “The Pretty Trap,” a cheerful take on The Glass Menagerie, and “Interior: Panic,” a stunning precursor to A Streetcar Named Desire. The plays include: • At Liberty • The Magic Tower • Me, Vashya • Curtains for the Gentleman • In Our Profession • Every Twenty Minutes • Honor the Living • The Case of the Crushed Petunias • Moony’s Kid Don’t Cry • The Dark Room • The Pretty Trap • Interior: Panic • Kingdom of Earth • I Never Get Dressed Till After Dark on Sundays • Some Problems for The Moose Lodge

The Traveling Companion and Other Plays

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,6 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.

Mister Paradise and Other One-act Plays

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,6 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.

27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1966-01-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780811220804

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27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams Pdf

The thirteen one-act plays collected in this volume include some of Tennessee Williams's finest and most powerful work. They are full of the perception of life as it is, and the passion for life as it ought to be, which have made The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire classics of the American theater. Only one of these plays (The Purification) is written in verse, but in all of them the approach to character is by way of poetic revelation. Whether Williams is writing of derelict roomers in a New Orleans boarding house (The Lady of Larkspur Lotion) or the memories of a venerable traveling salesman (The Last of My Solid Gold Watches) or of delinquent children (This Property is Condemned), his insight into human nature is that of the poet. He can compress the basic meaning of life—its pathos or its tragedy, its bravery or the quality of its love—into one small scene or a few moments of dialogue. Mr. Williams's views on the role of the little theater in American culture are contained in a stimulating essay, "Something wild...," which serves as an introduction to this collection.

Spring Storm

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,9 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

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,6 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.

Caterpillar Dogs: and Other Early Stories

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811232333

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Caterpillar Dogs: and Other Early Stories by Tennessee Williams Pdf

Seven previously unpublished stories of the Great Depression by America’s poet laureate of the lost These tales were penned by one Thomas Lanier Williams of Missouri before he became a successful playwright, and yet his voice is unmistakable. The reliable idiosyncrasies and quiet dignity of Williams’s eccentrics are already present in his characters. Consider the diminutive octogenarian of “The Caterpillar Dogs,” who may have just met her match in a pair of laughing Pekinese that refuse to obey; the retired, small-town evangelist in “Every Friday Nite is Kiddies Nite,” who wears bright-colored pajamas and receives a message from God to move to St. Louis and finally, finally go to the movies again; or the distraught factory worker whose stifled artistic spirit, and just a soupçon of the macabre, propel the drama of “Stair to the Roof.” Love’s diversions and misdirections, even autoerotic longings, are found in these delightful lagniappes: in “Season of Grapes,” the intoxicating ripeness of summer in the Ozarks acquaints one young man with his own passions, which turn into a fever dream, and the first revelation of female sexuality blooms for a college boy in “Ironweed.”Is there such a thing as innocence? Apparently in the 1930s there was, and Williams reveals it in these stories.

The Red Devil Battery Sign

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0811210472

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The Red Devil Battery Sign by Tennessee Williams Pdf

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.

The Magic Tower and Other One-act Plays

Author : Tennessee Williams,Terrence McNally
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,8 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."

Sweet Bird of Youth

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811205967

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Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams Pdf

The very title of Sweet Bird of Youth is one of ironic pity. The two chief characters--a raddled has-been actress from Hollywood, seeking to forget her present in drugs and sex, and her still handsome masseur-gigolo, who has brought her to his hometown in the South, believing that through her money and faded glamor his gaudy illusions may yet come true--are the reverse side of the American dream of youth. Yet as they work out their fate amid violence and horror, there is nevertheless a note of compassion for the damned.

The Lines Between the Lines

Author : Bess Rowen
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472054367

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The Lines Between the Lines by Bess Rowen Pdf

How stage directions convey not what a given moment looks like--but how it feels

Stopped Rocking and Other Screenplays

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,8 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.

Tales of Desire (New Directions Pearls)

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811220835

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Tales of Desire (New Directions Pearls) by Tennessee Williams Pdf

"I yearned for a bad influence and boy, was Tennessee one in the best sense of the word: joyous, alarming, sexually confusing and dangerously funny."—John Waters “I cannot write any sort of story,” said Tennessee [to Gore Vidal] “unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.” These transgressive Tales of Desire, including “One Arm,” “Desire and the Black Masseur,” “Hard Candy,” and “The Killer Chicken and the Closet Queen,” show the iconic playwright at his outrageous best.

Stairs to the Roof

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811214354

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Stairs to the Roof by Tennessee Williams Pdf

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.