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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... (more)

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.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

by Tennessee Williams

Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning play has captured both stage and film audiences since its debut in 1954. One of his best-loved and most famous plays, it exposes the lies plaguing the family of a wealthy Southern planter of humble origins.

A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays 'Sweet Bird of Youth';'The Glass Menagerie

A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays 'Sweet Bird of Youth';'The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

"A Streetcar Named Desire" is one of the most remarkable plays of our time. It created an immortal woman in the character of Blanche DuBois, the haggard and fragile southern beauty whose pathetic last grasp at happiness is cruelly destroyed. It shot Marlon Brando to fame in the role of Stanley Kowalski, a sweat-shirted barbarian, the crudely sensual brother-in-law who precipitated Blanche's tragedy. Produced... (more)

Cat on a hot tin roof

by Tennessee Williams

The definitive text of this American classic—reissued with an introduction by Edward Albee ( Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Delicate Balance ) and Williams' essay "Person-to-Person." Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat.... (more)

Night of the Iguana

by Tennessee Williams

Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes.

The " Glass Menagerie " (Student Editions)

The " Glass Menagerie " (Student Editions)

by Tennessee Williams

One of Tennessee Williams' most popular plays in a special annotated edition for school and college students. The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams' first great popular success and an autobiographical play about his mother and sister, launched the brilliant and controversial career of this ground-breaking American playwright. Set in St Louis during the depression era of the 1930s, it is the poignant drama of... (more)

Signet modern classic

by Tennessee Williams

Here are four plays by one of the giants of 20th-century American drama...

Sweet Bird of Youth

by Tennessee Williams

The acclaimed classic in a new edition, now with an insightful new introduction, the author's original foreword, and the one-act play, The Enemy: Time , on which Sweet Bird of Youth was based. Sometime actor and full-time male hustler Chance Wayne returns to the Gulf Coast town of St. Cloud in an attempt to retrieve his lost innocence by reuniting with his high school girlfriend, Heavenly Finley. But Chance... (more)

York Notes on Tennessee Williams' "Streetcar Named Desire" (York Notes Advanced)

York Notes on Tennessee Williams' "Streetcar Named Desire" (York Notes Advanced)

by Hana Sambrook

Key Features: *Study methods *Introduction to the text *Summaries with critical notes *Themes and techniques *Textual analysis of key passages *Author biography *Historical and literary background *Modern and historical critical approaches *Chronology *Glossary of literary terms

Theatre of Tennessee Williams: Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Summer and Smoke, the Rose Tatoo, Camino Real (Theatre of Tennessee Williams)

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.

One Arm (And Other Stories)

by Tennessee Williams

Orpheus Descending.Tennessee Williams

Orpheus Descending.

by Tennessee Williams

Margo: The Life And Theatre Of Margo Jones

Margo: The Life And Theatre Of Margo Jones

by Helen Sheehy

This is a reissue of the first biography of American theatre pioneer Margo Jones, whose Dallas theatre established in 1947 was the first modern professional resident theatre in the U.S., the model for more than 450 such theatres in the country today. Margo was mentor to playwrights William Inge, Horton Foote, Jerome Lawrence, and Robert E. Lee, as well as Tennessee Williams, whose The Glass Menagerie she... (more)

27 Wagons Full of Cotton

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 .

Baby Doll. The script for the film by Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams

Baby Doll. The script for the film by Tennessee Williams

by Tennessee Williams

Drama: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics Series) (3rd Edition) (Penguin Academics)

Drama: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics Series) (3rd Edition) (Penguin Academics)

by R. S. Gwynn

The perfect alternative to lengthy drama anthologies, this brief, affordable collection of the discipline's most widely taught plays provides a concise, but complete, introduction to the study of drama. In keeping with the objectives of the Penguin Academics series, Drama: A Pocket Anthology offers highly respected playwrights and a quality trade-format book at a very affordable price. This expanded edition... (more)

Collected Stories (A New Directions Book)

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)

Memoirs

by Tennessee Williams

For the "old crocodile," as Williams called himself late in life, the past was always present, and so it is with his continual shifting and intermingling of times, places, and memories as he weaves this story. 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' candor about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use... (more)

Four Plays

by Tennessee Williams

This anthology contains four of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's most brilliant works: Summer and Smoke, Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer and Period of Adjustment. "The innocent and the damned, the lonely and the frustrated, the hopeful and the hopeless . . . (Williams) brings them all into focus with an earthy, irreverently comic passion."--Newsweek.

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