The Glass Menagerie: Student Editions
Editat de Professor Stephen Bottoms Autor Tennessee Williamsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 oct 2008
The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams' first great popular success and an autobiographical play about his mother and sister, launched the brilliant and controversial career of this ground-breaking American playwright. Set in St Louis during the depression era of the 1930s, it is the poignant drama of a family's gradual disintegration, under pressure both from outside and within. A frustrated mother persuades her rebellious son to provide a 'gentleman caller' for her shy, crippled daughter, but her romantic dreams are shattered by the intervention of harsh reality. This edition provides the author's preferred text, available for the first time in the United Kingdom, and includes Williams' essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, 'The Catastrophe of Success', as well as a short section of Williams' own production notes.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780713685121
ISBN-10: 0713685123
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria Student Editions
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0713685123
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria Student Editions
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Expert commentary and notes for students, including questions for further study, a chronology of the writer's life and work and a bibliography.
Notă biografică
Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 and started writing aged forteen as a means of "escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable". He spent the Depression years working in a shoe factory, before eventually getting his plays professionally produced in the 40s, starting with The Glass Menagerie which won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. In 1947 A Street Car Named Desire opened in New York and ran for 885 performances. Williams died in 1983.
Recenzii
'The thrill of shattered glass and the piercing pain of unfulfilled longing: this revival by Braham Murray resounds with the high-pitched sound of both'
'Menagerie is a claustrophobic play about people struggling to get away from the harsh realities of their circumstances and live their dreams. It is as much about the post-Depression American Dream as it is about personal aspiration.'
'If ever a play were informed by its author's biography, it is Tennessee William's memory play, a delicate, almost Chekhovian drama flecked with regret and guilt. Like the narrator, young Tom Wingfield, Williams undertook a Houdini-like disappearing trick to escape his family in St Louis and become a writer. Like Tom, he could never entirely blow the candle of memory out. It flickers and splutters through all his best work.'
'The play works its melancholy magic'
'Williams's blunt reminder about the fragility of hope'
'[Williams's] forte was poignant psychological detail seen through a prism of laughter'
'A "memory play", dealing in reality remembered and so coloured by emotion'
'Williams caught the self-sufficiency of provincial America, its economic rigour and its social restraint'
'On the face of it, an autobiographical Depression tale, but its themes are universal: hope, fragility, trapped lives'
'The 1944 play that propelled him into the major league of American dramatists'
'Tennessee Williams's most fond and disturbing play'
'A truth about Williams's own leaving of his family will be told through the story of a lame girl who is crippled with shyness, her ambitious fantasist of a mother, the brother who wants to escape, a boy who calls, and some transparent, barely touchable animal ornaments'
'The near-misses and half-truths of this play about lost love go straight to the heart'
'Melancholy is woven into the fabric of Tennessee Williams's 1944 play'
'The most touching, tender and painful of his works'
'[The play] has a poetry and compassion about it that rings constantly true, with passages that cut to the heart like a knife'...'A masterpiece.'
'One of the greatest theatrical achievements of illusion and disappointment'
'Menagerie is a claustrophobic play about people struggling to get away from the harsh realities of their circumstances and live their dreams. It is as much about the post-Depression American Dream as it is about personal aspiration.'
'If ever a play were informed by its author's biography, it is Tennessee William's memory play, a delicate, almost Chekhovian drama flecked with regret and guilt. Like the narrator, young Tom Wingfield, Williams undertook a Houdini-like disappearing trick to escape his family in St Louis and become a writer. Like Tom, he could never entirely blow the candle of memory out. It flickers and splutters through all his best work.'
'The play works its melancholy magic'
'Williams's blunt reminder about the fragility of hope'
'[Williams's] forte was poignant psychological detail seen through a prism of laughter'
'A "memory play", dealing in reality remembered and so coloured by emotion'
'Williams caught the self-sufficiency of provincial America, its economic rigour and its social restraint'
'On the face of it, an autobiographical Depression tale, but its themes are universal: hope, fragility, trapped lives'
'The 1944 play that propelled him into the major league of American dramatists'
'Tennessee Williams's most fond and disturbing play'
'A truth about Williams's own leaving of his family will be told through the story of a lame girl who is crippled with shyness, her ambitious fantasist of a mother, the brother who wants to escape, a boy who calls, and some transparent, barely touchable animal ornaments'
'The near-misses and half-truths of this play about lost love go straight to the heart'
'Melancholy is woven into the fabric of Tennessee Williams's 1944 play'
'The most touching, tender and painful of his works'
'[The play] has a poetry and compassion about it that rings constantly true, with passages that cut to the heart like a knife'...'A masterpiece.'
'One of the greatest theatrical achievements of illusion and disappointment'
Descriere
One of Tennessee Williams' most popular plays in a special annotated edition for school and college students. It provides the author's favoured text along with a selection of notes, commentary and questions for study.