The Critical Response To Tennessee Williams

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 : George W. Crandell
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 0313293724
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( 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 0 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 : 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 : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438113722
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee William written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tennessee Williams's second Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof confronts homosexuality, father and son relationships, greed, manipulation, aging, and death. Study the play that has been referred to as brutally honest.

Author : Stephen Sadler Stanton
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tennessee Williams written by Stephen Sadler Stanton and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1977 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of critical essays analyzing his work, sensitivity to dialogue, his comic talent and theatrical flair.

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 : Robert Gross
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135673543
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tennessee Williams written by Robert Gross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tennessee Williams' plays are performed around the world, and are staples of the standard American repertory. His famous portrayals of women engage feminist critics, and as America's leading gay playwright from the repressive postwar period, through Stonewall, to the growth of gay liberation, he represents an important and controversial figure for queer theorists. Gross and his contributors have included all of his plays, a chronology, introduction and bibliography.

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 : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438113498
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tennessee Williams, Updated Edition written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of critical essays on Williams and his works, arranged in chronological order of publication.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Glass Menagerie written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: