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El narrador presenta algunos elementos característicos de la vida del propio autor: una madre posesiva, la aventura neoyorquina emprendida por un joven escritor en busca del éxito.

Anne-Marie Duff stars as Blanche DuBois in BBC Radio 3's landmark production of Tennessee Williams' masterpieceTennessee Williams's iconic play tells the story of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski.Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly on the doorstep of her sister Stella and her explosive brother-in-law Stanley. Over the course of one hot and steamy New Orl...

In Savannah, Georgia, nine-year-old Riddley Cross discovers a stash of old lynching postcards in her late grandfather's belongings. One of these postcards shows a young girl standing beside a hanged man. Unbeknownst to Riddley, that girl is her grandmother, now afflicted with Alzheimer's disease. As Riddley unravels the mysteries of the lynching postcards, a series of tragic events begins to unfold, forcing her to question what she has been ta...

Tennessee Williams blazed onto the world stage after World War II with powerful dramas like A Streetcar Named Desire, Sweet Bird of Youth, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Night of the Iguana, all plays which reached mass audiences in star-studded film versions.

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Few writers achieve success in more than one genre, and yet if Tennessee Williams had never written a single play he would still be known as a distinguished poet. The excitement, compassion, lyricism, and humor that epitomize his writing for the theater are all present in his poetry. It was as a young poet that Williams first came to the attention of New Directions' founder James Laughlin, who initially presented some of Williams' verse in the...

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A play that's an atmospheric study of the effects of lost youth and innocence by one of America's most acclaimed playwrights of the last century. This edition is aimed at degree and A level Drama students.

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Tennessee Williams had a distinct talent for writing short plays and, not surprisingly, this remarkable new collection of never-before-published one-acts includes some of his most poignant and hilarious characters: the indefatigable, witty and tough drag queens of And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens..., the strange little man behind the nom de plume Mister Paradise, and the extravagant mistress who cheats on her married man in The Pin...

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>Endstation Sehnsucht< erzählt die Geschichte von Blanche Dubois, einer Lehrerin aus den Südstaaten. Blanche erlebt die Auflösung ihrer Familie, einer nach dem anderen stirbt, sie muß zusehen, wie der einstmals stolze Besitz, das Herrenhaus »Belle Reve«, zwangsversteigert wird. Die einzige Zuflucht, die ihr bleibt, ist ihre Schwester Stella, die in New Orleans lebt, mit einem Mann verheiratet ist, der nach Blanches Meinung weit unter ihrem soz...

Amanda Wingfield lebt mit ihren zwei erwachsenen Kindern in einer kleinen Wohnung in St. Louis. Amanda, frühzeitig von ihrem Ehemann verlassen, flüchtet sich ebenso in eine Traumwelt wie ihre beiden Kinder. Tom entflieht seinem trostlosen Dasein in die illusionäre Wirklichkeit des Kinos und träumt davon, Dichter zu werden. Lauras Lebensinhalt besteht darin, zerbrechliche Glastierchen zu sammeln. Mit Jim O'Connor tritt die Realität ins Leben de...

Anläßlich »Big Daddys« Geburtstag trifft die gesamte Familie zusammen. Zeit, alte Familienstreitigkeiten wieder aufbrechen zu lassen, alte Haßgefühle zu aktivieren, aber auch Zeit, um sich endlich der Wahrheit zu stellen. Die Katze ist die sexgeladene Maggie, die mit ihrer Vitalität versucht, den Bannkreis von Heuchelei, Selbsttäuschung und verlogener Moral zu durchbrechen, um ihren Mann Brick und ihre Ehe zu retten und sich dabei selbst einer...

Williams' berühmtestes Drama: ein Traumspiel um Amanda, Tom und Laura Wingfield, die sich, jeder auf seine Weise, aus ihren beengten Verhältnissen in eine andere Welt flüchten.Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.

Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evening wr...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Arthur Miller.'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers'Fading southern belle Blanche DuBois is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with h...

Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura, her shy crippled daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories. Amanda is desperate to find her daughter a husband, but when the long-aw...