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Early Stories by Tennessee Williams

Autor Tennessee Williams Editat de Tom Mitchell Contribuţii de Thomas Keith
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 apr 2025 – vârsta ani
Early Stories by Tennessee Williams is an edited collection of thirty previously unpublished short stories written in the 1930s, when Tennessee Williams was living in the Midwest during a tumultuous period for the nation and himself. The stories highlight aspects of the writer’s biography relative to his young adult years in St. Louis, Columbia, and the Missouri Ozarks, offering insight into the relationships between the author, his family, and close friends. The influence of proletarian fiction and leftist ideas are evident in Williams’s stories of the Great Depression, as are themes of sexual turmoil and inner passions inspired by authors like D. H. Lawrence.
                 In notes for each story, additional context is provided regarding locations, occupations, and individuals. All of this enriches a critical understanding of Tennessee Williams’s major works such as The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Night of the Iguana, and Suddenly Last Summer.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781685970048
ISBN-10: 1685970044
Pagini: 326
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Iowa Press
Colecția University Of Iowa Press

Recenzii

“These early stories have something that the later, more finished works lack: a rawness and a youthfulness in craft. It’s like looking at a pencil sketch a painter makes before adding the oil paints. But it is precisely that quality that makes these stories so powerful. You can see the innate talent of the storyteller, the search for his own form of eloquence. I love them.”—Moisés Kaufman, playwright/author, Gross Indecency, The Laramie Project, Here There Are Blueberries
“Had Tennessee Williams never written a play, he might still have entered the U.S. literary canon as a short story writer. This collection of his early short stories, brilliantly edited and annotated by Tom Mitchell, experiments with many of the themes, images, symbols, and even characters that populate Williams’s later work, both his fiction and his theatre. Early Stories is an important contribution to the already vast Williams oeuvre.”—John S. Bak, author, Tennessee Williams: A Literary Life
“Reading Tennessee Williams’s early fiction and poetry, guided by pioneering Williams scholar Tom Mitchell, we view the dawn of America’s great playwright. Sigmund Freud suggested that what we don’t talk about is what’s most important. Tennessee Williams talked a lot about his time in Mississippi and in New Orleans. He didn’t say as much about the Midwest, where Williams lived from the time he was seven until he was twenty-nine. This wonder-filled anthology does the talking for him.”—David Kaplan, curator, the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival
 
“It is from these succulent acorns that the towering art of Tennessee Williams grew. He gathers together passions, sexual repressions, cruel mores, and untarnished ambitions in these eager stories, which sparkle on their own as well as point toward the soaring work to follow.”—Jewelle Gomez, author, The Gilda Stories
“Tom Mitchell’s collection of Tennessee Williams’s short stories from the 1930s, written before Williams had become one of America’s most lauded playwrights, provides invaluable insight into the world of a thoughtful outsider who would go on to become the champion of the ‘fugitive kind,’ crafting portraits of truth spoken from the margins of society. Providing glimpses of the influences that shaped Williams’s sensibility and that created some of the most famous characters in the American theatre, Early Stories by Tennessee Williams is a must-read for anyone interested in his life and work.”—Annette J. Saddik, author, Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess: The Strange, The Crazed, The Queer
 

Notă biografică

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and author, born in Mississippi and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. Noted as one of the greatest playwrights of the twentieth century, Williams’s plays continue to be produced around the world. Tom Mitchell is emeritus professor of theatre at the University of Illinois and scholar-in-residence for the Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis. Among other work, he edited The Caterpillar Dogs and Other Early Stories by Tennessee Williams. Mitchell lives in Champaign, Illinois. Thomas Keith has edited the Tennessee Williams titles for New Directions Publishing since 2002, is coeditor of The Luck of Friendship: Letters of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin, edited Love, Christopher Street, and wrote Robert Burns’s Life on the Stage. He is an associate adjunct professor of theater at Pace University.


 

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Early Stories by Tennessee Williams is an edited collection of thirty previously unpublished short stories written in the 1930s, when Tennessee Williams was living in the Midwest. The stories highlight aspects of the writer’s biography relative to his young adult years in St. Louis, Columbia, and the Missouri Ozarks, offering insight into the relationships between the author, his family, and close friends. In notes for each story, additional context is provided regarding locations, occupations, and individuals.