Study Guide To The Major Plays Of Tennessee Williams

Author : Intelligent Education
Publisher : Influence Publishers
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-26
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781645424574

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Study Guide to the Major Plays of Tennessee Williams by Intelligent Education Pdf

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Tennessee Williams, considered to be among the three foremost playwrights of twentieth-century American drama. Titles in this study guide include A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, and The Glass Menagerie. As playwright of the twentieth-century, Tennessee Williams’ plays uncovered a world of grievance in which violence and sex lay just below the surface of romantic glamour. Moreover, his works displayed that simpler times are not always simple, they are simply clearer in hindsight. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Tennessee Williams’ classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons they have stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.

Author : Stephen Bottoms,Philip Kolin,Michael Hooper
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : 53,6 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 : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006357417

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438115450

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Tennessee Williams by Harold Bloom Pdf

Presents a biography of Tennessee Williams along with critical views of his work.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410357007

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A Study Guide for Tennessee Williams's "The Rose Tattoo" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Tennessee Williams's "The Rose Tattoo," 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 : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410334879

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A Study Guide for Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

Author : Philip Kolin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : American literature
ISBN : PSU:000052001260

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Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410353900

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A Study Guide for Tennessee Williams's "Night of the Iguana" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Tennessee Williams's "Night of the Iguana," 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 : 118 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822210894

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A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Pdf

THE STORY: The play reveals to the very depths the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject--so far as possible--the realities of life with which she is faced and which s

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999-06-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780811220750

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The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Pdf

No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the world. The Glass Menagerie (in the reading text the author preferred) is now available only in its New Directions Paperbook edition. A new introduction by prominent Williams scholar Robert Bray, editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award: "More than fifty years after telling his story of a family whose lives form a triangle of quiet desperation, Williams's mellifluous voice still resonates deeply and universally." This edition of The Glass Menagerie also includes Williams's essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, "The Catastrophe of Success," as well as a short section of Williams's own "Production Notes." The cover features the classic line drawing by Alvin Lustig, originally done for the 1949 New Directions edition.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Chelsea House
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0791073769

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Bloom's Major Dramatists by Harold Bloom Pdf

History's greatest playwrights are covered in one set.

Author : Greta Heintzelman,Alycia Smith Howard
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410359773

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A Study Guide for Tennessee Williams's "Sweet Bird of Youth" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Tennessee Williams's "Sweet Bird of Youth," 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.