The Glass Menagerie
Author | : Tennessee Willams |
Publisher | : The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop |
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Genre | : Drama |
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Author | : Tennessee Willams |
Publisher | : The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop |
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Genre | : Drama |
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Author | : Tania Chakravertty |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2024-08-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1040128335 |
This volume traces the growth of Tennessee Williams from being a fragile child to becoming one of America’s greatest playwrights, also highlighting the playwright’s deep indebtedness to the Southern literary conventions. The book analyses Williams’s wonderful play with the sense of time and shows how in The Glass Menagerie as in all memory plays, the protagonist ruminates over the past, re-evaluates himself in that context and has a deeper understanding of the present, eventually using memory to recover from past trauma. One of the chapters analyses the use of the new form in Menagerie that Williams and his contemporaries had begun experimenting with, what Williams referred to as ‘plastic theatre’. Twentieth century American poetic drama, turned out to be contemporary, seeking the universal emotional and psychic truths and simultaneously portraying American life and culture with authenticity. The book also involves an in-depth study of the characters in Menagerie. Tom Wingfield has been critiqued in relationship to the absent father, the formidable mother and the soulmate sister; and the author has focused on, amongst many things, the gender issue. She has provided an analysis and critique of the reproduction of sex and gender and has brought the reader’s attention to Tom Wingfield’s and the playwright’s own struggle to strike a balance between the masculine and the feminine.
Author | : Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780811217286 |
"There isn't a dull or conventional page, or an unlovely sentence in the book."--Scott Eyman, The Palm Beach Post
Author | : R. B. Parker |
Publisher | : Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Essays discuss different productions of the play, identify literary influences, examine the characters, and analyzes Williams' dramatic technique.
Author | : Tania Chakravertty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-10 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781003504245 |
"This volume traces the growth of Tennessee Williams from being a fragile child to becoming one of America's greatest playwrights, also highlighting the playwright's deep indebtedness to the Southern literary conventions. The book analyses Williams's wonderful play with the sense of time and shows how in The Glass Menagerie as in all memory plays, the protagonist ruminates over the past, re-evaluates himself in that context and has a deeper understanding of the present, eventually using memory to recover from past trauma. One of the chapters analyses the use of the new form in Menagerie that Williams and his contemporaries had begun experimenting with, what Williams referred to as 'plastic theatre'. Twentieth century American poetic drama, turned out to be contemporary, seeking the universal emotional and psychic truths and simultaneously portraying American life and culture with authenticity. The book also involves an in-depth study of the characters in Menagerie. Tom Wingfield has been critiqued in relationship to the absent father, the formidable mother and the soulmate sister; and the author has focused on, amongst many things, the gender issue. She has provided an analysis and critique of the reproduction of sex and gender and has brought the reader's attention to Tom Wingfield's and the playwright's own struggle to strike a balance between the masculine and the feminine"--
Author | : Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1999-06-17 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0811220753 |
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 piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the world. The Glass Menagerie (in the reading text the author preferred) is now available only in its New Directions Paperbook edition. A new introduction by prominent Williams scholar Robert Bray, editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award: "More than fifty years after telling his story of a family whose lives form a triangle of quiet desperation, Williams's mellifluous voice still resonates deeply and universally." This edition of The Glass Menagerie also includes Williams's essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, "The Catastrophe of Success," as well as a short section of Williams's own "Production Notes." The cover features the classic line drawing by Alvin Lustig, originally done for the 1949 New Directions edition.
Author | : Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780811207065 |
Tennessee Williams' witty, engaging, and elegant essays are now available in a revised and much expanded edition.
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780811214049 |
The only single edition now available of this American classic about a mother obsessed with her disabled daughter.
Author | : Annett Gräfe |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : 2007-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 3638759830 |
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut f r Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Classics of Modern American Drama, 18 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Of particular interest for this paper is the juxtaposition of conflicting traits in Amanda's character. On the one hand, she is characterized by critics as the good mother and perpetuator. On the other hand, she is the terrible, cruel mother and perpetrator. These different characteristics seem to be directly connected to Amanda's relationship to her children. For her daughter she is the good mother, trying everything to ensure her daughter's security in the future. Her son experiences his mother's treatment as suffocating and restricting for his dreams and ambitions. Yet, both of these different attitudes seem to be motivated by the same disposition in Amanda: the love and devotion of a mother for her children. Consequently, there must be other reasons that motivate Amanda's behavior. This paper is going to consider the social and economical situation in the USA at the time of the play, Amanda's glorification of her own past and the fact that the play is Tom's memory for a combination of these three points seem to be the reason why Amanda is portrait as such an ambiguous character in the drama. To begin with, the relevant social and economic circumstances in the USA during the time of the play are going to be analyzed. Amanda's glorification of her past is then discussed followed by the analysis of the influence of Tom's memory on the portrayal of Amanda in the play. Finally, the results of the analysis of the three factors are applied to the relationship of Amanda and her children.