The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie - Paperback

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The Glass Menagerie - Paperback

The Glass Menagerie - Paperback

by Tennessee Williams
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Book Overview

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.
ISBN9780811214049
Author Tennessee Williams
PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation
GenreDrama
FormatPaperback
PublishedJune 1999
LanguageENG- English
Pages104
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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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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