The Gnädiges Fräulein

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822204517

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The Gnädiges Fräulein by Tennessee Williams Pdf

Described as a "tragicomedy", this one-act play is set in a Florida bunkhouse for "permanent transients". The title may be translated as "The Gracious Lady", but the "characters include a kooky society gossip columnist, the frowsy crone who runs the place, a demented former Viennese vaudevillian, a Cocaloony bird (evidently a local name for a pelican) and a tomahawk-brandishing, war-whooping, blond-wigged Indian." -- adapted from publisher's website.

Author : Greta Heintzelman,Alycia Smith Howard
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Matthew C. Roudané
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : William Prosser
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0810863618

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The Late Plays of Tennessee Williams by William Prosser Pdf

"Praised as one of the finest American playwrights of the 20th century, Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) left a legacy of theater classics, including The Glass Menagerie, Sweet Bird of Youth. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and A Streetcar Named Desire. Although he won two Pulitzer prizes for drama, Williams fell out of favor in the early 1960s, and after The Night of the Iguana his subsequent works suffered both critical and commercial failure. Even worse, several of his plays failed to get produced in his lifetime." "William Prosser directed six productions of Williams' plays, five of which the playwright saw, criticized, and often praised. Determined to liberate the playwright's later works from the literary purgatory to which they had been condemned by critics, Prosser examines the plays Williams produced from the early 1960s until his death. In several thoughtful essays. Prosser discusses such works as The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, Slapstick Tragedy, Kingdom of Earth, The Red Devil Battery Sign, and Clothes for a Summer Hotel a portrait of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Besides offering reevaluations of these plays, each chapter may be seen as research and analysis for potential productions, Throughout the book, Prosser contends that Williams' talent was not destroyed but rather went on in different directions to create extraordinary, if misunderstood, works."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Gilbert Debusscher,Henry I. Schvey,Marc Maufort
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : American drama
ISBN : 9051831072

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New Essays on American Drama by Gilbert Debusscher,Henry I. Schvey,Marc Maufort Pdf

Author : Caleb Sprague Henry,Joseph Green Cogswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : IND:32000000709875

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The New-York Review by Caleb Sprague Henry,Joseph Green Cogswell Pdf

Author : Una Chaudhuri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317594567

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The Stage Lives of Animals by Una Chaudhuri Pdf

The Stage Lives of Animals examines what it might mean to make theatre beyond the human. In this stunning collection of essays, Una Chaudhuri engages with the alternative modes of thinking, feeling, and making art offered by animals and animality, bringing insights from theatre practice and theory to animal studies as well as exploring what animal studies can bring to the study of theatre and performance. As our planet lives through what scientists call "the sixth extinction," and we become ever more aware of our relationships to other species, Chaudhuri takes a highly original look at the "animal imagination" of well-known plays, performances and creative projects, including works by: Caryl Churchill Rachel Rosenthal Marina Zurkow Edward Albee Tennesee Williams Eugene Ionesco Covering over a decade of explorations, a wide range of writers, and many urgent topics, this volume demonstrates that an interspecies imagination deeply structures modern western drama.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101064464504

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The New-York Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Annette J. Saddik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107076686

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Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess by Annette J. Saddik Pdf

This book explores Williams' late plays in terms of a 'theatre of excess', which seeks liberation through exaggeration, chaos, ambiguity, and laughter.

Author : Jackson R. Bryer,Richard Allan Davison
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0813528739

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The Actor's Art by Jackson R. Bryer,Richard Allan Davison Pdf

Bryer (English, U. of Maryland) and Davison (English, U. of Delaware) interviewed 17 seasoned actors about their professional lives, their views of American theater, and their perspectives on acting, the characters they've played, and the directors they've worked with. The interviews are presented in qanda format, and include the thoughts of Zoe Caldwell, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, Blythe Danner, Ruby Dee, George Grizzard, Julie Harris, Eileen Heckart, Cherry Jones, James Earl Jones, Stacy Keach, Shirley Knight, Nathan Lane, Jason Robards, Maureen Stapleton, and Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811207951

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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams Pdf

Now available as a paperbook, Volume VIII adds to the series' four full-length plays written and produced during the last decade of Williams' life.

Author : Brenda Murphy
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408145333

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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams by Brenda Murphy Pdf

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Perfect for students of English Literature, Theatre Studies and American Studies at college and university, The Theatre of Tennessee Williams provides a lucid and stimulating analysis of Willams' dramatic work by one of America's leading scholars. With the centennial of his birth celebrated amid a flurry of conferences devoted to his work in 2011, and his plays a central part of any literature and drama curriculum and uibiquitous in theatre repertoires, he remains a giant of twentieth century literature and drama. In Brenda Murphy's major study of his work she examines his life and career and provides an analysis of more than a score of his key plays, including in-depth studies of major works such as A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and others. She traces the artist figure who features in many of Williams' plays to broaden the discussion beyond the normal reference points. As with other volumes in Methuen Drama's Critical Companions series, this book features too essays by Bruce McConachie, John S. Bak, Felicia Hardison Londré and Annette Saddik, offering perspectives on different aspects of Williams' work that will assist students in their own critical thinking.

Author : Richard Eberhart
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811212866

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The Long Reach by Richard Eberhart Pdf

Poems deal with truth, religion, nature, thought, the role of poetry, death, visions, age, and the past.

Author : Warren French
Publisher : Springer
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1980-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349164165

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Twentieth Century American Literature by Warren French Pdf

Author : Jacqueline O’Connor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611478945

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Law and Sexuality in Tennessee Williams’s America by Jacqueline O’Connor Pdf

This book explores the diverse representation of sexualities in Tennessee Williams’s texts and argues for his creative response to the increase, prior to and following World War II, in criminal prosecution of transgressive sexual activity. It expands longstanding scholarly assessments of Williams’s work, using the law as a framework to assess this writer’s role as a cultural, political, and legal force participating in the normalization of diverse sexualities, during his lifetime and beyond.