The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie

• Author : Tennessee Williams
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1950
• Genre: Film adaptations
• Pages : 19
• ISBN 10 : OCLC:1030427585

The Glass Menagerie

• Author : Tennessee Williams
• Publisher : New Directions Publishing
• Release Date : 1999-06-17
• Genre: Drama
• Pages : 104
• ISBN 10 : 9780811220750

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.

The Glass Menagerie

• Author : Harold Bloom
• Publisher : Infobase Publishing
• Release Date : 2007
• Genre: Electronic books
• Pages : 114
• ISBN 10 : 9781438114514

A comprehensive study guide to Tennessee Williams's The glass menagerie.

The Glass Menagerie and a Streetcar Named Desire

• Author : Tennessee Williams
• Publisher : Barron's Educational Series
• Release Date : 1985-08
• Genre: Uncategoriezed
• Pages : 132
• ISBN 10 : 081203516X

A guide to reading "The Glass Menagerie" and "A Streetcar Named Desire" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.

The Glass Menagerie

• Author : Tennessee Williams
• Publisher : New Directions Publishing
• Release Date : 1999
• Genre: Drama
• Pages : 132
• ISBN 10 : 0811214044

The only single edition now available of this American classic about a mother obsessed with her disabled daughter.

The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams

• Author : Matthew C. Roudané
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release Date : 1997-12-11
• Genre: Drama
• Pages : 304
• ISBN 10 : 9781107493827

This is a collection of thirteen original essays from a team of leading scholars in the field. In this wide-ranging volume, the contributors cover a healthy sampling of Williams's works, from the early apprenticeship years in the 1930s through to his last play before his death in 1983, Something Cloudy, Something Clear. In addition to essays on such major plays as The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, among others, the contributors also consider selected minor plays, short stories, poems, and biographical concerns. The Companion also features a chapter on selected key productions as well as a bibliographic essay surveying the major critical statements on Williams.

The Glass Menagerie

• Author : Tennessee Williams
• Publisher : Heinemann
• Release Date : 1996
• Genre: Families
• Pages : 120
• ISBN 10 : 043523319X

A beautiful clothbound edition of a beloved classic to celebrate the 100th birthday of America s greatest playwright, with a sweeping new introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner.

History of the United States

• Author : John Clark Ridpath
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1878
• Genre: United States
• Pages : 552
• ISBN 10 : OSU:32435016962037

Battle of Angels

• Author : Tennessee Williams
• Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
• Release Date : 1975
• Genre: American drama
• Pages : 84
• ISBN 10 : 0822200996

THE STORY: As in its later and substantially re-written version (entitled ORPHEUS DESCENDING), the play deals with the arrival of a virile young drifter, Val Xavier, in a sleepy, small town in rural Mississippi. He takes a job in the dry goods stor

Tennessee Williams s The Glass Menagerie

• Author : Harold Bloom
• Publisher : Infobase Publishing
• Release Date : 2007
• Genre: American drama
• Pages : 187
• ISBN 10 : 9780791093498

Premiering in 1944, The Glass Menagerie was Tennessee Williams's first popular success. Today the play is considered one of Williams's masterpieces and is frequently performed. This updated volume is an essential resource for those seeking to deepen their appreciation of this fascinating character study. Book jacket.

Tennessee Williams Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

• Author : John Lahr
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release Date : 2014-09-22
• Genre: Biography & Autobiography
• Pages : 736
• ISBN 10 : 9780393247121

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: Biography Category National Book Award Finalist 2015 Winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award A Chicago Tribune 'Best Books of 2014' USA Today: 10 Books We Loved Reading Washington Post, 10 Best Books of 2014 The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker. John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater and the nation's sense of itself. This astute, deeply researched biography sheds a light on Tennessee Williams's warring family, his guilt, his creative triumphs and failures, his sexuality and numerous affairs, his misreported death, even the shenanigans surrounding his estate. With vivid cameos of the formative influences in Williams's life—his fierce, belittling father Cornelius; his puritanical, domineering mother Edwina; his demented sister Rose, who was lobotomized at the age of thirty-three; his beloved grandfather, the Reverend Walter Dakin—Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh is as much a biography of the man who created A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as it is a trenchant exploration of Williams’s plays and the tortured process of bringing them to stage and screen. The portrait of Williams himself is unforgettable: a virgin until he was twenty-six, he had serial homosexual affairs thereafter as well as long-time, bruising relationships with Pancho Gonzalez and Frank Merlo. With compassion and verve, Lahr explores how Williams's relationships informed his work and how the resulting success brought turmoil to his personal life. Lahr captures not just Williams’s tempestuous public persona but also his backstage life, where

THE GLASS MENAGERIE

• Author : TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1945
• Genre: Uncategoriezed
• Pages : 148
• ISBN 10 : 978186723xxxx

The Glass Menagerie

• Author : R. B. Parker
• Publisher : Prentice Hall
• Release Date : 1983
• Genre: Glass menagerie
• Pages : 200
• ISBN 10 : UOM:39015060851774

Essays discuss different productions of the play, identify literary influences, examine the characters, and analyzes Williams' dramatic technique.

Family Dysfunction in Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

• Author : Dedria Bryfonski
• Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
• Release Date : 2013-01-22
• Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
• Pages : 176
• ISBN 10 : 9780737763805

Tennessee Williams' 1944 play The Glass Menagerie centers around a family of three, Tom, Laura, and Amanda Wingfield, exploring what it means to share a household with people whose individual psychological eccentricities threaten to overwhelm the whole. Told retroactively in the format of a memory play, the protagonist, Tom, an aspiring poet by night and warehouse worker by night, introduces the audience to the conditions which led him to abandon his family in pursuit of his independence. This informative edition explores the themes of family dysfunction in Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, providing readers with a critical look at the intersection of literature and sociology. The book includes an examination of Williams' life and influences and takes a hard look at key ideas related to the play, such as the role of guilt in family relationships and the breakdown of the American dream. Readers are also offered contemporary perspectives on family dysfunction through the discussion of toxic or overbearing parents and the effects of alcoholism on families.

A Study Guide for Tennessee Williams s The Glass Menagerie

• Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
• Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
• Release Date : 2015-09-24
• Genre: Literary Criticism
• Pages : 15
• ISBN 10 : 9781410334879