No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the world. The Glass Menagerie (in the reading text the author preferred) is now available only in its New Directions Paperbook edition. A new introduction by prominent Williams scholar Robert Bray, editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award: "More than fifty years after telling his story of a family whose lives form a triangle of quiet desperation, Williams's mellifluous voice still resonates deeply and universally." This edition of The Glass Menagerie also includes Williams's essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, "The Catastrophe of Success," as well as a short section of Williams's own "Production Notes." The cover features the classic line drawing by Alvin Lustig, originally done for the 1949 New Directions edition.
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A Study Guide for Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie
Delma E. Presley's 'The Glass Menagerie: An American Memory' offers a cogent and thorough analysis of Tennessee William's masterpiece. The study addresses such issues as characterization, structure, and the visual...
It is probably significant that the older Williams, when he came to write The Notebook of Trigorin, focused on the older rather than the younger man. In addition to characters, there are a few other ideas that Williams could have ...
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Classics of Modern American Drama, 18 entries in the bibliography, language ...
A guide to reading "The Glass Menagerie" and "A Streetcar Named Desire" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure.
Essays discuss different productions of the play, identify literary influences, examine the characters, and analyzes Williams' dramatic technique.
Seminar paper from the year 1999 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, http: //www.uni-jena.de/, 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: "At the age of fourteen, I discovered writing as an escape ...
But the failure of Orpheus Descending was not at the core of his depression. ... In 1955 the Reverend Walter Dakin, Williams' maternal grandfather, died of a stroke. ... In 1957 Williams' father died in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, University of Tubingen, course: Introduction to literary studies (American literature), language: English, abstract: The subject of this ...