Cantitate/Preț
Produs

A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Sweet Bird of Youth

Editat de Katherine Weiss Autor Professor Stephen Bottoms, Prof. Philip Kolin, Michael Hooper
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 sep 2014
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.
Citește tot Restrânge

Toate formatele și edițiile

Toate formatele și edițiile Preț Express
Paperback (1) 17970 lei  6-8 săpt.
  Bloomsbury Publishing – 24 sep 2014 17970 lei  6-8 săpt.
Hardback (1) 53858 lei  6-8 săpt.
  Bloomsbury Publishing – 24 sep 2014 53858 lei  6-8 săpt.

Preț: 53858 lei

Preț vechi: 68941 lei
-22% Nou

Puncte Express: 808

Preț estimativ în valută:
10311 10717$ 8549£

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 05-19 februarie 25

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472521828
ISBN-10: 147252182X
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Clearly structured commentary on each play includes detailed production history plus questions for further study

Notă biografică

Katherine Weiss is Associate Professor of English in the Department of Literature and Language, East Tennessee State University, USA.Stephen Bottoms is Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance at Manchester University, UK.Philip Kolin is University Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts and Letters and Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi, USA.Michael S. D. Hooper is the author of Sexual Politics in the Work of Tennessee Williams: Desire Over Protest, and teaches English and Drama at St Margaret's Bushey, UK.

Cuprins

AcknowledgementsA chronology of Williams' life and workIntroduction1. The Glass Menagerie2. A Streetcar Named Desire3. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof4. Sweet Bird of Youth5. Questions for study6. Further reading

Recenzii

What Weiss has done here is sculpt a text that . provides an in-depth primer to one of the United States' most decorated playwrights. Ultimately, A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams will be useful for students and professors who are searching for an easily navigable and digestible analysis of Williams and his early work.
Working chronologically through his plays, Murphy provides critical commentary for each, her own as well as commentaries from other leading scholars in the field . From start to last, Murphy's summaries are generous without being overwritten; her explications insightful and accessible, the way in fact a really good teacher's are.