Tennessee Williams And The Theatre Of Excess
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Author |
: Annette J. Saddik |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 193 |
Release |
: 2015-01-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107076686 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107076684 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess by : Annette J. Saddik
This book explores Williams' late plays in terms of a 'theatre of excess', which seeks liberation through exaggeration, chaos, ambiguity, and laughter.
Author |
: Annette J. Saddik |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 193 |
Release |
: 2015-01-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781316240687 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1316240681 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess by : Annette J. Saddik
The plays of Tennessee Williams' post-1961 period have often been misunderstood and dismissed. In light of Williams' centennial in 2011, which was marked internationally by productions and world premieres of his late plays, Annette J. Saddik's new reading of these works illuminates them in the context of what she terms a 'theatre of excess', which seeks liberation through exaggeration, chaos, ambiguity, and laughter. Saddik explains why they are now gaining increasing acclaim, and analyzes recent productions that successfully captured elements central to Williams' late aesthetic, particularly a delicate balance of laughter and horror with a self-consciously ironic acting style. Grounding the plays through the work of Bakhtin, Artaud, and Kristeva, as well as through the carnivalesque, the grotesque, and psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer theory, Saddik demonstrates how Williams engaged the freedom of exaggeration and excess in celebration of what he called 'the strange, the crazed, the queer'.
Author |
: Richard Eberhart |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 1984 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0811212866 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780811212861 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Long Reach by : Richard Eberhart
Poems deal with truth, religion, nature, thought, the role of poetry, death, visions, age, and the past.
Author |
: Tennessee Williams |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 446 |
Release |
: 1971 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0811204170 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780811204170 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Theatre of Tennessee Williams by : Tennessee Williams
Now available as a paperbook, Volume VIII adds to the series' four full-length plays written and produced during the last decade of Williams' life.
Author |
: Tennessee Williams |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1981 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:884831748 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis THE THEATRE OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS.. by : Tennessee Williams
Author |
: Jacqueline O’Connor |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 229 |
Release |
: 2016-05-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781611478945 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1611478944 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Law and Sexuality in Tennessee Williams’s America by : Jacqueline O’Connor
Gender and cultural studies readings of Tennessee Williams’s work have provided diverse perspectives on his complex representations of sexuality, whether of himself as an openly gay man, or of his characters, many of whom narrate or dramatize sexual attitudes or behavior that cross heteronormative boundaries of the mid-century period. Several of these studies have positioned Williams and his work amid the public tensions in American life over roughly four decades, from 1940–1980, as notions of equality and freedom of choice challenged prejudice and repression in law and in society. To date, however, neither Williams’s homosexuality nor his persistent representations of sexual transgressions have been examined as legal matters that challenged the rule of law. Directed by legal history and informed by multiple strands of Williams’s studies criticism, textual, and cultural, this book explores the interplay of select topics defined and debated in law’s texts with those same topics in Williams’s personal and imaginative texts. By tracing the obscure and the transparent representations of homosexuality, specifically, and diverse sexualities more generally, through selected stories and plays, the book charts the intersections between Williams’s literature and the laws that governed the period. His imaginative works, backlit by his personal documents and historical and legal records from the period, underscore his preoccupation with depictions of diverse sexualities throughout his career. His use of legal language and its varied effects on his texts demonstrate his work’s multiple and complex intersection with major twentieth-century concerns, including significant legal and cultural dialogues about identity formation, intimacy, privacy, and difference.
Author |
: Tennessee Williams |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0811217086 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780811217088 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Traveling Companion and Other Plays by : Tennessee Williams
"Collected here for the first time, these twelve plays embrace what Time magazine called "the four major concerns of Williams' dramatic imagination: loneliness, love, the violated heart and the valiancy of survival"--Back cover.
Author |
: Tennessee Williams |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 591 |
Release |
: 1971 |
ISBN-10 |
: LCCN:78159743 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Theatre of Tennessee Williams. Volume II. by : Tennessee Williams
Author |
: Brenda Murphy |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 1992-02-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521400953 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521400954 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan by : Brenda Murphy
This is a book-length study of the intense creative relationship between Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan.
Author |
: David Kaplan |
Publisher |
: Hansen Publishing Group LLC |
Total Pages |
: 202 |
Release |
: 2015-09-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781601824271 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1601824270 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tenn Years by : David Kaplan
The essays in this volume were all written by David Kaplan in conjunction with the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, of which he is the curator and a co-founder. They are organized in two sections. The first section consists of ten essays written for each year of the Provincetown Festival, most included in the Festival catalogue for the year indicated. Those essays focus on each year’s thematic selection of Williams plays—and other dance, music, and theater events—as well as some aspect of Williams’ plays not always obvious in the text but essential to understanding the plays in production. The second section includes seven occasional essays, written for productions of Williams plays associated with the Festival. All the essays relate, in one way or another, to the story of what happened to the playwright during the last twenty years of his life and how his reputation is evolving since his death.