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Exploring human passion with daring and unflinching honesty, Tennessee Williams forged a poetic theater of raw psychological insight that fused realism and expressionism. Now, in an authoritative two-volume edition, The Library of America collects the plays that reveal a prophetic figure in American life and letters?a writer of generous sympathies and uncompromising frankness who reached wide audiences with plays that revolutionized the themes...

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First published in 1947, 'A Streetcar Named Desire' is an American play by Tennessee Williams, an American playwright, and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama. It centers on a desolated woman named Blanche DuBois. Raised in Old South aristocratic traditions, she lived elegantly in the family homestead, married a man she a...

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Kurz vor ihrem Tod zieht sich die steinreiche und exzentrische Sissy Goforth auf ihre einsame Insel im Mittelmeer zurück. Hier möchte die mehrfach verwitwete Sissy ihre letzten Tage nutzen, um endlich ihre Memoiren zu beenden. Dabei hat sie nur ihre Bediensteten um sich, die sich an die Regeln ihrer tyrannischen Chefin zu halten haben. Als der Dichter Chris Flanders auf der Insel auftaucht, wird Sissy aus ihrem Trott gerissen. Dieser ist als T...

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Set in Provincetown, Cape Cod, in 1940, Kip is a character on the verge of adulthood learning about love, his sexuality and the poetry that breathes within him. The play echoes Williams' own experiences during that "pivotal summer when I was on the brink of growing up.

Tennessee Williams' lesser-known one act plays reveal a tantalising and fascinating perspective to one of the world's most important playwrights.

Baby Doll is a 1956 American dramatic black comedy film directed by Elia Kazan, and starring Carroll Baker, Karl Malden and Eli Wallach. It was produced by Kazan and Tennessee Williams. The plot focuses on a feud between two rival cotton gin owners in rural Mississippi, after one of the men commits arson against the other's gin, the owner retaliates by attempting to seduce the arsonist's nineteen-year-old virgin bride with the hopes of receivi...

Alexandra Del Lago und Chance Wayne sind ein ungleiches Paar. Die in die Jahre gekommene Filmdiva kann sich nicht mit dem Altern abfinden und hat sich die Gesellschaft des erfolglosen Schauspielers erkauft. Der ehrgeizige Chance hofft hingegen, mit ihrer Hilfe endlich zu einem Casting eingeladen zu werden. Doch Alexandra ist weniger an seinem Talent interessiert ...

Mrs. Stoneun Roma Bahari, 20. yüzyilin en basarili Amerikan oyun yazarlarindan Tennessee Williamsin kisa roman türünde verdigi kusursuz bir örnek.Karen Stone güzelligiyle nam salmis Amerikali bir tiyatro oyuncusudur. Ancak orta yasi gecmektedir ve yaslandigini kabullenmemekte direnmektedir. Isini birakip esini de kaybedince yeni bir hayat kurmak üzere Romaya yerlesir. Burada bir yandan gücü ve parasiyla her seyi elde etmeye calisirken bir yand...

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Lontani dal panorama editoriale degli ultimi anni, vengono qui riproposti alcuni piccoli capolavori della drammaturgia di Tennessee Williams. Brevi drammi pervasi di un'atmosfera dolente, ma anche umoristica che ricorreranno nelle opere di più ampio respiro del drammaturgo americano, come "Lo zoo di vetro" e "Un tram che si chiama desiderio". Situazioni satiriche corrette da un gusto del grottesco puro che possiede la medesima conturbante susc...