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.

New York Magazine

New York Magazine
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Total Pages : 132
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Synopsis New York Magazine by :

New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brosnan
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Publisher : Citadel Press
Total Pages : 262
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ISBN-10 : 0806524022
ISBN-13 : 9780806524023
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Pierce Brosnan by : Peter Carrick

Featuring 16 pages of rare photographs, this biography includes a comprehensive filmography and chronology of Pierce Brosnan's career.

The Politics of Reputation

The Politics of Reputation
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Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages : 188
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ISBN-10 : 0838637728
ISBN-13 : 9780838637722
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis The Politics of Reputation by : Annette J. Saddik

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.

Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9780313007729
ISBN-13 : 0313007721
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Tennessee Williams by : Philip Kolin

The plays of Tennessee Williams are some of the greatest triumphs of the American theatre. If Williams is not the most important American playwright, he surely is one of the two or three most celebrated, rivaled only by Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller. In a career that spanned almost five decades, he created an extensive canon of more than 70 plays. His contributions to the American theatre are inestimable and revolutionary. The Glass Menagerie (1945) introduced poetic realism to the American stage; A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) explored sexual and psychological issues that had never before been portrayed in American culture; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) dared to challenge the political and sexual mores of the Eisenhower era; and his plays of the 1970s are among the most innovative works produced on the American stage. But Williams was far more than a gifted and prolific playwright. He created two collections of poetry, two novels, four collections of stories, memoirs, and scores of essays. Because of his towering presence in American drama, Williams has attracted the attention of some of the most insightful scholars and critics of the twentieth century. The 1990s in particular ushered in a renaissance of Williams research, including a definitive biography, a descriptive bibliography, and numerous books and scholarly articles. This reference book synthesizes the vast body of research on Tennessee Williams and offers a performance history of his works. Under the guidance of one of the leading authorities on Williams, expert contributors have written chapters on each of Williams' works or clusters of works. Each chapter includes a discussion of the biographical context of a work or group of writings; a survey of the bibliographic history; an analysis of major critical approaches, which looks at themes, characters, symbols, and plots; a consideration of the major critical problems posed by the work; an overview of chief productions and film and television versions; a concluding interpretation; and a bibliography of secondary sources. The volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography and a comprehensive index.

The Red Devil Battery Sign

The Red Devil Battery Sign
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:270834049
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Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis The Red Devil Battery Sign by : Tennessee Williams

Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams

Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams
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Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Total Pages : 449
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ISBN-10 : 9781438108568
ISBN-13 : 1438108567
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams by : Greta Heintzelman

One of the greatest American dramatists of the 20th century, Tennessee Williams is known for his sensitive characterizations, poetic yet realistic writing, ironic humor, and depiction, of harsh realties in human relationship. His work is frequently included in high school and college curricula, and his plays are continually produced. Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams includes entries on all of Williams's major and minor works, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie, a novel, a collection of short stories, two poetry collections, and personal essays; places and events related to his works; major figures in his life; his literary influences; and issues in Williams scholarship and criticism. Appendixes include a complete list of Williams's works; a list of research libraries with significant Williams holdings; and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources.

The Late Plays of Tennessee Williams

The Late Plays of Tennessee Williams
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Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Total Pages : 310
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ISBN-10 : 0810863618
ISBN-13 : 9780810863613
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis The Late Plays of Tennessee Williams by : William Prosser

"Praised as one of the finest American playwrights of the 20th century, Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) left a legacy of theater classics, including The Glass Menagerie, Sweet Bird of Youth. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and A Streetcar Named Desire. Although he won two Pulitzer prizes for drama, Williams fell out of favor in the early 1960s, and after The Night of the Iguana his subsequent works suffered both critical and commercial failure. Even worse, several of his plays failed to get produced in his lifetime." "William Prosser directed six productions of Williams' plays, five of which the playwright saw, criticized, and often praised. Determined to liberate the playwright's later works from the literary purgatory to which they had been condemned by critics, Prosser examines the plays Williams produced from the early 1960s until his death. In several thoughtful essays. Prosser discusses such works as The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, Slapstick Tragedy, Kingdom of Earth, The Red Devil Battery Sign, and Clothes for a Summer Hotel a portrait of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Besides offering reevaluations of these plays, each chapter may be seen as research and analysis for potential productions, Throughout the book, Prosser contends that Williams' talent was not destroyed but rather went on in different directions to create extraordinary, if misunderstood, works."--BOOK JACKET.

Sexual Politics in the Work of Tennessee Williams

Sexual Politics in the Work of Tennessee Williams
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 261
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ISBN-10 : 9781107015364
ISBN-13 : 1107015367
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Sexual Politics in the Work of Tennessee Williams by : Michael S. D. Hooper

Is Tennessee Williams a social writer at heart? Hooper questions this view, presenting a new interpretation of the dramatist.

The Traveling Companion and Other Plays

The Traveling Companion and Other Plays
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 356
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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.