Orpheus Descending And Suddenly Last Summer

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780811225328

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Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams Pdf

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.

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Signet
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Drama
ISBN : PSU:000029208982

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Four Plays: Summer and Smoke, Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer, Period of Adjustment by Tennessee Williams Pdf

Author : Matthew C. Roudané
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997-12-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 052149883X

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The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams by Matthew C. Roudané Pdf

This is a collection of thirteen original essays from a team of leading scholars in the field. In this wide-ranging volume, the contributors cover a healthy sampling of Williams's works, from the early apprenticeship years in the 1930s through to his last play before his death in 1983, Something Cloudy, Something Clear. In addition to essays on such major plays as The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, among others, the contributors also consider selected minor plays, short stories, poems, and biographical concerns. The Companion also features a chapter on selected key productions as well as a bibliographic essay surveying the major critical statements on Williams.

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Signet
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0451518578

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Tennessee Williams, Four Plays by Tennessee Williams Pdf

Celebrated playwright Williams brings alive the nature of love, hate, comedy, tragedy, joy, sorrow, and passion in four well-known works.

Author : Bright Summaries
Publisher : BrightSummaries.com
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9782808019583

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Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams (Book Analysis) by Bright Summaries Pdf

Unlock the more straightforward side of Suddenly Last Summer with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams. At the outset of this one-act play, Mrs. Venable is talking to the psychiatrist Dr. Sugar. She laments the death of her beloved son Sebastian and hits out at his cousin Catherine, whom she blames for his death and accuses of spreading vicious rumours about him. Indeed, Catherine’s claims about Sebastian have landed her in an asylum, and Mrs. Venable even attempts to convince the psychiatrist to perform a lobotomy on her. However, when Dr. Sugar talks to Catherine, the sinister truth about the events of the previous summer gradually emerges... Williams’s other works include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie, and he is widely considered to be one of the greatest American playwrights of all time. Find out everything you need to know about Suddenly Last Summer in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822210940

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Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams Pdf

THE STORY: Kerr, in the NY Herald-Tribune, describes: This, says Mr. Williams through the most sympathetic voice among his characters, 'is a true story about the time and the world we live in.' He has made it seem true--or at least curiously and su

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Greta Heintzelman,Alycia Smith Howard
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Dramatists, American
ISBN : 9781438108568

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Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams by Greta Heintzelman,Alycia Smith Howard Pdf

One of the greatest American dramatists of the 20th century, Tennessee Williams is known for his sensitive characterizations, poetic yet realistic writing, ironic humor, and depiction, of harsh realties in human relationship. His work is frequently included in high school and college curricula, and his plays are continually produced. Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams includes entries on all of Williams's major and minor works, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie, a novel, a collection of short stories, two poetry collections, and personal essays; places and events related to his works; major figures in his life; his literary influences; and issues in Williams scholarship and criticism. Appendixes include a complete list of Williams's works; a list of research libraries with significant Williams holdings; and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources.

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : American drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004522798

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Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams Pdf

Contains the text of a 1958 play in which a young woman who has been in a mental institution since witnessing the horrible death of her cousin, is harassed by her relatives who all have their own reasons for wanting her to change her story.

Author : J. Bak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137308474

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Tennessee Williams by J. Bak Pdf

This Literary Life draws extensively from the playwright's correspondences, notebooks, and archival papers to offer an original angle to the discussion of Williams's life and work, and the times and circumstances that helped produce it.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410354815

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A Study Guide for Tenessee Williams's "Orpheus Descending" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Tenessee Williams's "Orpheus Descending," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822208652

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Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams Pdf

THE STORY: As The New York Times describes, The play tells of a woman storekeeper and a handsome, guileless youth who comes in off the highway. A guitar-player, he is a rural Orpheus who descends to rescue his love--not in Hades, precisely,

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0822210975

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Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams Pdf

THE STORY: A play that is profoundly affecting, SUMMER AND SMOKE is a simple love story of a somewhat puritanical Southern girl and an unpuritanical young doctor. Each is basically attracted to the other but because of their divergent attitudes toward lif

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Signet
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0451525124

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Four Plays by Tennessee Williams Pdf

This anthology contains four of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's most brilliant works: Summer and Smoke, Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer and Period of Adjustment. "The innocent and the damned, the lonely and the frustrated, the hopeful and the hopeless . . . (Williams) brings them all into focus with an earthy, irreverently comic passion".--Newsweek.

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 45,7 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.