Download or read book Reading and Interpreting the Works of Tennessee Williams written by Spring Hermann and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child growing up in the Deep South, Tom Tennessee Williams escaped from his tumultuous home life by retreating into his imagination. His love for made-up stories would eventually translate into a propensity for writing drama and poetry. This compelling text places the playwrights work in the context of his life and times, allowing readers to gain a greater understanding of the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. Featuring quotes, excerpts, and in-depth critical analysis of his most famous plays as well as his lesser-known works, the text provides an in-depth look at this hard-working, prolific playwright considered by many to be among the greatest of his time.
Download or read book Understanding Tennessee Williams written by Alice Griffin and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Griffin offers an in-depth evaluation of the nine plays that established Tennessee Williams as America's greatest lyric dramatist. Describing him as the first playwright writing in English to combine full-blooded characters, theatricalism, and poetic dialogue, Griffin considers Williams both as a literary figure and as a stage innovator. Griffin analyzes the language, characters, dramatic effects, and staging of these classic plays, and she calls attention to Williams's unique gift for creating dialogue as lyrical poetry yet as authentic as everyday conversation. She reveals the importance of symbolism in his work, uncovers his often overlooked humor, and explains his insistence on "plastic" presentations. Griffin also chronicles the resistance that Williams met when he tried to bring his revolutionary staging ideas to the commercial theater. Griffin viewed the plays as originally staged and discussed them with the playwright, the directors, and the actors. From her association with these initial productions, Griffin shares her knowledge of Williams's frustration with the presentation of his work. She remedies what she considers to be misguided interpretations of those early productions by measuring the original stage productions against Williams's stated aims.
Download or read book Notebooks written by Margaret Rose Thornton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meticulously edited and annotated, Tennessee Williams's notebooks follow his growth as a writer from his undergraduate days to the publication and production of his most famous plays, from his drug addiction and drunkenness to the heights of his literary accomplishments.
Download or read book Bloom s How to Write about Tennessee Williams written by Jennifer Banach and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers advice on writing essays about the works of Tennessee Williams and lists sample topics.
Download or read book Understanding Tennessee Williams written by Alice Griffin and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Griffin offers an in-depth evaluation of the nine plays that established Tennessee Williams as America's greatest lyric dramatist. Describing him as the first playwright writing in English to combine full-blooded characters, theatricalism, and poetic dialogue, Griffin considers Williams both as a literary figure and as a stage innovator. --from publisher description.
Download or read book Tennessee Williams Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh written by John Lahr and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: Biography Category National Book Award Finalist 2015 Winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award A Chicago Tribune 'Best Books of 2014' USA Today: 10 Books We Loved Reading Washington Post, 10 Best Books of 2014 The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker. John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater and the nation's sense of itself. This astute, deeply researched biography sheds a light on Tennessee Williams's warring family, his guilt, his creative triumphs and failures, his sexuality and numerous affairs, his misreported death, even the shenanigans surrounding his estate. With vivid cameos of the formative influences in Williams's life—his fierce, belittling father Cornelius; his puritanical, domineering mother Edwina; his demented sister Rose, who was lobotomized at the age of thirty-three; his beloved grandfather, the Reverend Walter Dakin—Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh is as much a biography of the man who created A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as it is a trenchant exploration of Williams’s plays and the tortured process of bringing them to stage and screen. The portrait of Williams himself is unforgettable: a virgin until he was twenty-six, he had serial homosexual affairs thereafter as well as long-time, bruising relationships with Pancho Gonzalez and Frank Merlo. With compassion and verve, Lahr explores how Williams's relationships informed his work and how the resulting success brought turmoil to his personal life. Lahr captures not just Williams’s tempestuous public persona but also his backstage life, where his agent Audrey Wood and the director Elia Kazan play major roles, and Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Bette Davis, Maureen Stapleton, Diana Barrymore, and Tallulah Bankhead have scintillating walk-on parts. This is a biography of the highest order: a book about the major American playwright of his time written by the major American drama critic of his time.
Download or read book A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Book Analysis written by Bright Summaries and published by BrightSummaries.com. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the more straightforward side of A Streetcar Named Desire with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, which tells the story of two very different sisters, Blanche and Stella, who are forced to live together after Blanche loses both her job and the family home. However, the genteel, highly strung Blanche soon clashes with Stella’s boorish husband Stanley, and their volatile relationship hastens her impending mental and emotional collapse. A Streetcar Named Desire won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and is one of Tennessee Williams’ most celebrated plays. Williams’s other works include The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Suddenly Last Summer, and he is widely considered to be one of the greatest American playwrights of all time. Find out everything you need to know about A Streetcar Named Desire 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!
Download or read book Reading and Interpreting the Works of Eugene O Neill written by Spring Hermann and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playwright Eugene O'Neill dominated American theater for the first half of the twentieth century, and inspired most of the important dramatists of its second half. This text tells the story of O'Neill's often troubled life, then ties it in with his work: complex, lengthy dramas unlike anything seen on Broadway before. The playwright's main themes, which he returned to throughout his career, are carefully detailed, as are the various styles he employed over the years. Critical analysis, excerpts from the work, and quotes from O'Neill enhance readers' understanding and appreciation for this prolific playwright.
Download or read book Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams Book Analysis written by Bright Summaries and published by BrightSummaries.com. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!
Download or read book Tennessee Williams Updated Edition written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of critical essays on Williams and his works, arranged in chronological order of publication.
Download or read book Collected Stories written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1994-04-17 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive collection establishes Williams as a major American fiction writer of the twentieth century. Tennessee Williams’ Collected Stories combines the four short-story volumes published during Williams’ lifetime with previously unpublished or uncollected stories. Arranged chronologically, the forty-nine stories, when taken together with the memoir of his father that serves as a preface, not only establish Williams as a major American fiction writer of the twentieth century, but also, in Gore Vidal’s view, constitute the real autobiography of Williams’ "art and inner life."
Download or read book A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams written by Stephen Bottoms and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Hard Candy written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1954 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Book Analysis written by Bright Summaries and published by BrightSummaries.com. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the more straightforward side of The Glass Menagerie with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, one of the famed playwright’s most autobiographical works. The play is told from the perspective of Tom Wingfield, a young man who is trapped in his memories of his life with his mother Amanda and sister Laura – a life he has cast off and left behind him. The play follows the events that transpire when Tom invites Jim to dinner, sparking hopes that he might prove a suitable suitor for Laura, whose overpowering social anxiety has left her isolated from the world. However, things do not work out as planned, and Tom is left with nothing but his guilt over the situation. Williams’s other works include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire and Suddenly Last Summer, and he is widely considered to be one of the greatest American playwrights of all time. Find out everything you need to know about The Glass Menagerie 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!
Download or read book Tennessee Williams written by Ronald Hayman and published by Yale University Press UK Sr. This book was released on 1993 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the American playwright portrays him as a troubled artist who coped with his insecurities through the daily discipline of writing
Download or read book Blue Song written by Henry I. Schvey and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011, the centennial of Tennessee Williams’s birth, events were held around the world honoring America’s greatest playwright. There were festivals, conferences, and exhibitions held in places closely associated with Williams’s life and career—New Orleans held major celebrations, as did New York, Key West, and Provincetown. But absolutely nothing was done to celebrate Williams’s life and extraordinary literary and theatrical career in the place that he lived in longest, and called home longer than any other—St. Louis, Missouri. The question of this paradox lies at the heart of this book, an attempt not so much to correct the record about Williams’s well-chronicled dislike of the city, but rather to reveal how the city was absolutely indispensable to his formation and development both as a person and artist. Unlike the prevailing scholarly narrative that suggests that Williams discovered himself artistically and sexually in the deep South and New Orleans, Blue Song reveals that Williams remained emotionally tethered to St. Louis for a host of reasons for the rest of his life.
Download or read book A Student s Guide to Tennessee Williams written by Spring Hermann and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life and work of Tennessee Williams, one of the most important American playwrights of the twentieth century.
