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Signet modern classic
by Tennessee Williams
Here are four plays by one of the giants of 20th-century American drama...
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Clothes for a Summer Hotel: A Ghost Play
by Tennessee Williams
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Three by Tenneessee (Sweet Bird Of Youth/ The Rose Tattoo/ The Night Of The Iguana)
by Tennessee Williams
Three of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author's most Brilliant Plays...
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Tennessee Williams : an intimate biography
by Dakin Williams
This is a new edition with an afterward by Michael Ritchie dealing with the life and murder of Tennessee Williams
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Tennessee, cry of the heart
by Dotson Rader
Intimate Memoir of Tennessee Williams .
Tennessee Williams : a tribute
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Tennessee Williams : a tribute
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The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. Menagerie was Williams' 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... (more)
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A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
The story of Blanche DuBois and her last grasp at happiness, and of Stanley Kowalski, the one who destroyed her chance.
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Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams
by Lyle Leverich
The riveting, revelatory, and sole authorized account of the critical first decades of Tennessee Williams's life. Tennessee Williams, author of such indelible masterpieces as The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire, is considered by many to be the greatest literary artist of the American theater. Tom is Lyle Leverich's definitive account based on his exclusive access to letters, diaries, unpublished... (more)
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The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume I: 1920-1945
Winner of the Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters, Modern Language Association, 2001. When first published in 2000, Volume I of The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams was hailed as "indispensable" ( Choice ), "a carefully researched, fully documented study," ( Buffalo News ) and "a model edition of a significant set of letters by one of America's leading writers" (MLA citation for... (more)
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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
by Tennessee Williams
Theatre of Tennessee Williams Vol. 3 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, and Suddenly Last Summer.
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The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams
by Tennessee Williams, David Roessel
The definitive edition of all of the playwright/poet's poetry. Tennessee Williams, acknowledged lyric master of American drama, first came to the attention of New Directions founder James Laughlin as a young poet who subsequently appeared in an early anthology, Five Young American Poets , 1944. Over the years, Williams was cajoled into publishing two volumes of his poetry, In the Winter of Cities (1956,... (more)
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The Notebook of Trigorin: A Free Adaptation of Chekhov's the Sea Gull
by Tennessee Williams
first publication of Williams' stage adaptation
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Collected Stories (A New Directions Book)
by Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams was famous for insisting he write every morning. Even during his darkest days, while mourning a lover, or abusing some substance -- and he abused most of them at one time or another -- he'd write. The stories in this volume, arranged chronologically, are from every period of his long life, and recreate the milieux Williams knew and chronicled so movingly -- from his gypsy youth in St. Louis and... (more)
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The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Vol. 2: 1945-1957
by Tennessee Williams
Volume I of The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams ends with the unexpected triumph of The Glass Menagerie . Volume II extends the correspondence from 1946 to 1957, a time of intense creativity which saw the production of A Streetcar Named Desire, The Rose Tattoo, Camino Real , and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof . Following the immense success of Streetcar, Williams struggles to retain his prominence with a... (more)
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Five O'Clock Angel: Letters of Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just 1948-1982
by Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams and Maria Britneva met in London in 1948 and remained close friends and correspondents until the former's death in 1983. The Russian emigre, later Lady St. Just, was someone he could confide in and laugh with. Few of her letters to him have survived, but hundreds of Williams's letters to her are printed here with her comments, recollections and diary entries. He discusses his plays and their... (more)
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Theatre of Tennessee Williams: Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Summer and Smoke, the Rose Tatoo, Camino Real (Theatre of Tennessee Williams)
by Tennessee Williams
Theatre of Tennessee Williams Vol. 2. The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Summer and Smoke, The Rose Tattoo, and Camino Real.
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Orpheus Descending.
by Tennessee Williams
A play in three acts by Tennessee Williams.Also published as "Fugitive Kind"
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27 Wagons Full of Cotton
And Other Poems
by Tennessee Williams
New Directions publishes Tennessee Williams ' (1911-1983) letters, short stories, poems, essays, and over sixty of his plays including The Glass Menagerie , A Streetcar Named Desire , Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , Orpheus Descending , and The Night of the Iguana .
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Two-Character Play
by Tennessee Williams
A classic play by Tennessee Williams in a definitive, author-approved edition. Reality and fantasy are interwoven with terrifying power as two actors on tour—brother and sister—find themselves deserted by the trope in a decrepit "state theatre in an unknown state." Faced (perhaps) by an audience expecting a performance, they enact "The Two-Character Play"—an illusions within an illusion, and "out cry" from... (more)

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