The Critical Reputation Of Tennessee Williams

Author : Annette J. Saddik
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838637722
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Reputation written by Annette J. Saddik and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Annette J. Saddik researches Tennessee Williams' much-neglected later work (from 1961 to 1983), and argues that it deserves a central place in American experimental drama. Offering a new reading of Williams' career, she challenges the conventional wisdom that his later work represents a failure of his creative powers.

Author : John Lahr
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393247120
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh written by John Lahr and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 his agent Audrey Wood and the director Elia Kazan play major roles, and Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Bette Davis, Maureen Stapleton, Diana Barrymore, and Tallulah Bankhead have scintillating walk-on parts. This is a biography of the highest order: a book about the major American playwright of his time written by the major American drama critic of his time.

Author : David Kaplan
Publisher : Hansen Publishing Group, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781601824240
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tenn at One Hundred written by David Kaplan and published by Hansen Publishing Group, LLC. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being published in 2011 on the occasion of Tennessee Williams' centennial year, "Tenn at One Hundred" takes a behind-the-scenes look at how reputations are made. At the time of his death in 1983, Williams was the most produced playwright in the country and at the same time one of the most despised and ridiculed American writers. What were the events and decisions that brought him to these contradictory extremes of reputation?

Author : John S. McCann
Publisher : Hall Reference Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Critical Reputation of Tennessee Williams written by John S. McCann and published by Hall Reference Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert A. Martin
Publisher : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Essays on Tennessee Williams written by Robert A. Martin and published by Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive collection of essays about Tennessee Williams, containing both early reviews and a broad selection of modern scholarship, including six original essays commissioned for this volume.

Author : George W. Crandell
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Critical Response to Tennessee Williams written by George W. Crandell and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1996-08-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tennessee Williams is generally regarded, along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, as one of the greatest American dramatists of the 20th century. This reputation rests upon more than 40 years of critical acclaim accrued by his two masterpieces— A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie—and by a body of works that also includes the Pulitzer prize-winning drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and more than 60 other plays, such as The Rose Tattoo, Orpheus Descending, and The Night of the Iguana. He has created some of the most enduring characters on the American stage, and several actors have achieved stardom through roles created by him. Through representative reviews and criticism, this reference book provides a chronological record of the response to Williams's work. An introductory essay overviews his development as a dramatist and discusses some of the major themes in his works, while a chronology highlights the principal events in his life and career. Sections of the book are then devoted to his major plays. For the most significant plays, each section typically reprints several reviews and an extensive critical essay. The volume concludes with a selected bibliography of work by and about Tennessee Williams.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438115458
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tennessee Williams written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a biography of Tennessee Williams along with critical views of his work.

Author : Tennessee Willams
Publisher : The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Glass Menagerie written by Tennessee Willams and published by The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Grissom
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101972777
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Follies of God written by James Grissom and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkably illuminating portrait of Tennessee Williams lifts the veil on the heart and soul of his artistic inspiration: the unspoken collaboration between playwright and actor. At a low moment in Williams’s life, he summoned to New Orleans a young twenty-year-old writer, James Grissom, who had written him a letter asking for advice. After a long, intense conversation, Williams sent Grissom on a journey on his behalf to find out if he or his work had mattered to those who had so deeply mattered to him. Among the more than seventy women and men with whom Grissom talked were giants of American theater and film: Lillian Gish, (“the escort who brought me to Blanche”), Jessica Tandy (the original Blanche DuBois on Broadway), Eva Le Gallienne (“She was a stone against which I could rub my talent and feel that it became sharper”), Maureen Stapleton, Julie Harris, Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn, Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, John Gielgud, and many more. Follies of God provides dazzling insight into how Williams conjured the dramatic characters and plays that so transformed American theater.

Author : Michael Paller
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403967756
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gentlemen Callers written by Michael Paller and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-04-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description