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(0)Tennessee Williams
Author
Language
English
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Description
Menagerie was Williams' first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our preeminent 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 it is studied and performed in classrooms and theaters around the world. A new introduction by prominent Williams...
Author
Series
Signets Belles lettres volume AE6778
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece is one of the most enduring, explosive works in theater. Blanche DuBois, once a well-heeled Southern belle but now alcoholic and destitute, arrives in New Orleans to stay with her sister Stella and her brutish brother-in-law Stanley. And as Stanley terrorizes the fragile Blanche, reality slips slowly away from her.
Recorded at KCRW, Santa Monica in May 1998.
Directed by Martin Jenkins
Producing...
3) Memoirs
Author
Pub. Date
1975
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 264 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the media-though long self-identified as a gay man, Williams's candor about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself. As it turns out, Williams's look back at his life is not quite so scandalous as it once seemed; he recalls his childhood in Mississippi and St. Louis, his prolonged struggle as a "starving artist," the "overnight"...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1143
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xvi, 313 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
15) Selected plays
Author
Publisher
Franklin Library
Pub. Date
1977.
Physical Desc
665 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
General Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
136 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A southern belle on the run from her past seeks refuge with her sister in New Orleans, but she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with her crude, volatile brother-in-law.
Language
English
Description
Set in the French Quarter of New Orleans during the restless years following WWII, this is a story of Blanche DuBois, a fragile and neurotic woman on a desperate prowl for someplace in the world to call her own. An uncensored version of the story of a repressed widow who visits her sister in New Orleans and is raped and driven mad by her brother-in-law.
