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In this phantasmagorical play, the Camino Real is a dead end, a police state in a vaguely Latin American country, and an inescapable condition. Characters from history and literature-Don Quixote, Casanova, Camille, Lord Byron-inhabit a place where corruption and indifference have immobilized and nearly destroyed the human spirit. Then, into this netherworld, the archetypal Kilroy arrives-a sailor and all-American guy with "a heart as big as th...

The drama takes it form from the shifting scenes of memory, and Williams's surrogate self invites us to focus, in turn, on the various inhabitants or his dilapidated rooming house in the Vieux Carré: the comically desperate landlady, Mrs. Wire, Jane, a properly brought-up young woman from New York making at last grab at pleasure with Tye, the vulgar but appealing strip-joint barker, two decayed gentlewomen politely starving in the garret, and ...

This new collection of fantastic, lesser-known one-acts contains some of Williams's most potent, comical and disturbing short plays?Upper East Side ladies dine out during the apocalypse in Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws, while the poet Hart Crane is confronted by his mother at the bottom of the ocean in Steps Must Be Gentle. Five previously unpublished plays include A Recluse and His Guest,  and The Strange Play,  in which we witness a woman'...

A new edition of the popular American play from 1944, edited by Stephen Bottoms. *Also appeared in April Buyer's Notes*

Scritta intorno al 1950, nella scia di Zoo di vetro e di Un tram che si chiama desiderio, questa pièce porta nuovamente in scena una donna non più giovane e non più bella che rinuncia all'esistenza per mitizzare caparbiamente il proprio passato. Ma questa volta la materia è trattata in chiave comica e prevede un lieto fine. La rosa tatuata sarà portato per la prima volta sulle scene italiane da Valeria Moriconi, per la regia di Gabriele Vacis.

Literaturverfilmung nach dem Roman von Tennessee Williams:Eine Familie, die bereits bessere Tage gesehen hat, steht vor massiven, kaum lösbaren Konflikten: Die erstmals als Südstaaten-Schönheit gefeierte Mutter lebt vornehmlich in den Zeiten vergangenen Glanzes und versucht um jeden Preis ihre hypersensible und verschüchterte Tochter Laura zu verheiraten. Der mit Fluchtphantasien und literarischen Ambitionen kämpfende Sohn, gefangen in einer v...

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Archie Lee Meighan's Mississippi cotton gin business is floundering in the face of Silva Vacarro's Syndicate Gin, to this frustration is added the sexual unavailability of his voluptuous young wife Baby Doll.|2 women, 13 men

these stories help amplify Williams's tragic vision, for like the plays, they underline his preoccupation and insight into the conflicts of the human heart'New York TimesAcclaimed as one of America's most successful playwrights, Tennessee Williams also published four volumes of short stories.

In 1956,  Time magazine called Tennessee Williams' Baby Doll "just possibly the dirtiest American-made motion picture that has ever been legally exhibited." The taut, vivid drama of a voluptuous child-bridge, who refuses to consummate her marriage to an older, down-on-his-luck cotton-gin owner in Tiger Tail County, Mississippi until she is "ready, " has gained in humor and pathos over the years as society has caught up with the author's savage...

In 1956,  Time magazine called Tennessee Williams' Baby Doll "just possibly the dirtiest American-made motion picture that has ever been legally exhibited." The taut, vivid drama of a voluptuous child-bridge, who refuses to consummate her marriage to an older, down-on-his-luck cotton-gin owner in Tiger Tail County, Mississippi until she is "ready, " has gained in humor and pathos over the years as society has caught up with the author's savage...

Edited by Philip Kolin, this is the only edition aimed specifically at A level and degree level English and Drama.

First published as New Directions Paperbook 287, 1970, published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Limited."--T.p. verso.

Dramatic script relating the interactions of Amanda, her son, and her daughter, Laura and the very important gentleman caller.

The story of Blanche DuBois and her last grasp at happiness, and of Stanley Kowalski, the one who destroyed her chance.

The other plays being "Camino Real" and "Orpheus Descending".

A revised student edition of the classic American text, with a chronology of the playwright's life and work, and introduction to the background of the play and a discussion of the various interpretations. *Also appeared in Nov/Dec Buyer's Notes*

For most of his Broadway plays Tennessee Williams composed an essay, most often for The New York Times, to be published just prior to opening-something to whet the theatergoers' appetites and to get the critics thinking. Many of these were collected in the 1978 volume Where I Live, which is now expanded by noted Williams scholar John S. Bak to include all of Williams' theater essays, biographical pieces, introductions and reviews. This volume ...

Williams wrote: "This is a play about love in its purest terms." It is also Williams's robust and persuasive plea for endurance and resistance in the face of human suffering. The earthy widow Maxine Faulk is proprietress of a rundown hotel at the edge of a Mexican cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean where the defrocked Rev. Shannon, his tour group of ladies from a West Texas women's college, the self-described New England spinster Hannah Jelke...

Literatur verstehen und interpretieren Mit Lektürehilfen • wissen, was wann passiert, dank ausführlicher Inhaltsangabe mit Interpretation • wissen, welche Themen wichtig sind: anhand thematischer Kapitel • auf wichtige Fragen die richtigen Antworten wissen: gut vorbereitet durch typische Abiturfragen mit Lösungen