Study Guide to the Major Plays of Tennessee Williams

Study Guide to the Major Plays of Tennessee Williams
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Publisher : Influence Publishers
Total Pages : 187
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ISBN-10 : 9781645424574
ISBN-13 : 164542457X
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Study Guide to the Major Plays of Tennessee Williams by : Intelligent Education

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Tennessee Williams, considered to be among the three foremost playwrights of twentieth-century American drama. Titles in this study guide include A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, and The Glass Menagerie. As playwright of the twentieth-century, Tennessee Williams’ plays uncovered a world of grievance in which violence and sex lay just below the surface of romantic glamour. Moreover, his works displayed that simpler times are not always simple, they are simply clearer in hindsight. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Tennessee Williams’ classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons they have stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.

Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams
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Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Total Pages : 153
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ISBN-10 : 9781438115450
ISBN-13 : 1438115458
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Tennessee Williams by : Harold Bloom

Presents a biography of Tennessee Williams along with critical views of his work.

Bloom's Major Dramatists

Bloom's Major Dramatists
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Publisher : Chelsea House
Total Pages : 144
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ISBN-10 : 0791073769
ISBN-13 : 9780791073766
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Bloom's Major Dramatists by : Harold Bloom

History's greatest playwrights are covered in one set.

A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams

A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9781472528728
ISBN-13 : 1472528727
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams by : Stephen Bottoms

A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams provides the essential guide to Williams' most studied and revived dramas. Authored by a team of leading scholars, it offers students a clear analysis and detailed commentary on four of Williams' plays: The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth. A consistent framework of analysis ensures that whether readers are wanting a summary of the play, a commentary on the themes or characters, or a discussion of the work in performance, they can readily find what they need to develop their understanding and aid their appreciation of Williams' artistry. A chronology of the writer's life and work helps to situate all his works in context and the introduction reinforces this by providing a clear overview of Williams' writing, its recurrent themes and concerns and how these are intertwined with his life and times. For each play the author provides a summary of the plot, followed by commentary on: * The context * Themes * Characters * Structure and language * The play in production (both on stage and screen adaptations) Questions for study, and notes on words and phrases in the text are also supplied to aid the reader. The wealth of authoritative and clear commentary on each play, together with further questions that encourage comparison across Williams' work and related plays by other leading writers, ensures that this is the clearest and fullest guide to Williams' greatest plays.

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 452
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ISBN-10 : 9780393247121
ISBN-13 : 0393247120
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by : John Lahr

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.

A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire
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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages : 118
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ISBN-10 : 0822210894
ISBN-13 : 9780822210894
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis A Streetcar Named Desire by : Tennessee Williams

THE STORY: The play reveals to the very depths the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject--so far as possible--the realities of life with which she is faced and which s

Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire
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Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Total Pages : 189
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ISBN-10 : 9781438126289
ISBN-13 : 143812628X
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire by : Harold Bloom

Presents a collection of ten critical essays on Williams's play "A Streetcar Named Desire" arranged in chronological order of publication.

The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:402983147
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis The Glass Menagerie by :

Notebooks

Notebooks
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 868
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ISBN-10 : 0300116829
ISBN-13 : 9780300116823
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Notebooks by : Margaret Rose Thornton

Meticulously edited and annotated, Tennessee Williams's notebooks follow his growth as a writer from his undergraduate days to the publication and production of his most famous plays, from his drug addiction and drunkenness to the heights of his literary accomplishments.

The Red Devil Battery Sign

The Red Devil Battery Sign
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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages : 116
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ISBN-10 : 0811210472
ISBN-13 : 9780811210478
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis The Red Devil Battery Sign by : Tennessee Williams

This book is William's symbol for the military-industrial complex and all the dehumanizing trends it represents from mindless cocktail party chatter to bribery of officials to assassination plots directed against those who won't play the game, to attempted coups by right-wing zealots.