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The Glass Menagerie: The Deluxe Centennial Edition
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A beautiful clothbound edition of a beloved classic to celebrate the 100th birthday of America’s greatest playwright, with a sweeping new introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winner Tony Kushner. The Glass Menagerie marked a crucial turning point in American theater, and forever changed the life of its then unknown author. Williams’s elegiac master- piece brought a radical new lyricism to Broadway — the tragedy, fragility, and tenderness of this “memory play” have made it one of America’s most powerful, timeless, and compelling plays. The introduction by Tony Kushner sparkles with the kind of rich, unique insight that only a fellow playwright could convey. The Deluxe Centennial Edition includes: • Tony Kushner’s astonishing introduction. • The pioneering essay, “The Homosexual in Society,” by Tennessee’s friend Robert Duncan, and poems by Hart Crane, E. E. Cummings, Walt Whitman, and Tennessee Williams, which Kushner discusses as sources of inspiration. • “The Pretty Trap,” a cheerful one-act run-up to The Glass Menagerie. • “The Portrait of a Girl in Glass,” Tennessee’s short-story variation of the play • Photographs of great actresses who have played Amanda, and stills from various stage and film incarnations of The Glass Menagerie. • Williams’s classic essay about fame, “The Catastrophe of Success.” • The playwright’s original “Production Notes.” • The 1944 opening-night rave reviews from Chicago. • An essay by the distinguished Williams scholar Allean Hale, “Inside The Menagerie,” provides autobiographical particulars about Williams’s family life in St. Louis. • A gorgeous new jacket design by Rodrigo Corral.
A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)
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The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams' essay "The World I Live In." It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared—57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire is one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Streetcar launched the careers of Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden, and solidified the position of Tennessee Williams as one of the most important young playwrights of his generation, as well as that of Elia Kazan as the greatest American stage director of the '40s and '50s. Who better than America's elder statesman of the theater, Williams' contemporary Arthur Miller, to write as a witness to the lightning that struck American culture in the form of A Streetcar Named Desire? Miller's rich perspective on Williams' singular style of poetic dialogue, sensitive characters, and dramatic violence makes this a unique and valuable new edition of A Streetcar Named Desire. This definitive new edition will also include Williams' essay "The World I Live In," and a brief chronology of the author's life.
Memoirs
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For the "old crocodile," as Williams called himself late in life, the past was always present, and so it is with his continual shifting and intermingling of times, places, and memories as he weaves this story. When Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the mediathough long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candor about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself, and such revelations by America's greatest living playwright were called "a raw display of private life" by The New York Times Book Review. As it turns out, thirty years later, Williams' look back at his life is not quite so scandalous as it once seemed; he recalls his childhood in Mississippi and St. Louis, his prolonged struggle as a "starving artist," the "overnight" success of The Glass Menagerie in 1945, the death of his long-time companion Frank Merlo in 1962, and his confinement to a psychiatric ward in 1969 and subsequent recovery from alcohol and drug addiction, all with the same directness, compassion, and insight that epitomize his plays. And, of course, Memoirs is filled with Williams' amazing friends from the worlds of stage, screen, and literature as heoften hilariously, sometimes fondly, sometimes notremembers them: Laurette Taylor, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, Vivian Leigh, Carson McCullers, Anna Magnani, Greta Garbo, Elizabeth Taylor, and Tallulah Bankhead to name a few. And now film director John Waters, well acquainted with shocking the American public, has written an introduction that gives some perspective on the various reactions to Tennessee's Memoirs, while also paying tribute to a fellow artist who inspired many with his integrity and endurance.
'The Glass Menagerie' - Williams' Presentation of Women
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An analysis of Williams' presentation of women in the play which puts the play in its historical context at the same time.
Notebooks
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Tennessee Williams’s Notebooks, here published for the first time, presents by turns a passionate, whimsical, movingly lyrical, self-reflective, and completely uninhibited record of the life of this monumental American genius from 1936 to 1981, the year of his death. In these pages Williams (1911-1981) wrote out his most private thoughts as well as sketches of plays, poems, and accounts of his social, professional, and sexual encounters. The notebooks are the repository of Williams’s fears, obsessions, passions, and contradictions, and they form possibly the most spontaneous self-portrait by any writer in American history.
Meticulously edited and annotated by Margaret Thornton, the notebooks follow Williams’ growth as a writer from his undergraduate days to the publication and production of his most famous plays, from his drug addiction and drunkenness to the heights of his literary accomplishments. At one point, Williams writes, I feel dull and disinterested in the literary line. Dr. Heller bores me with all his erudite discussion of literature. Writing is just writing! Why all the fuss about it?” This remarkable record of the life of Tennessee Williams is about writinghow his writing came up like a pure, underground stream through the often unhappy chaos of his life to become a memorable and permanent contribution to world literature.
The Collected Plays of Tennessee Williams (The Library of America)
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In celebration of the Tennessee Williams centennial in 2011, The Library of America presents its acclaimed two-volume edition of his plays in a collector's boxed set. Gathering thirty-two works written from the 1930s to the 1980s, this is the most complete collection ever published of the playwright who transformed the American stage. The first volume opens with the rediscovered early plays, Spring Storm and Not About Nightingales, and contains such classics as The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Rose Tattoo, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, as well as a selection of one acts.
The second volume includes Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer, Sweet Bird of Youth, Period of Adjustment, The Night of the Iguana, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Out Cry, and A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur.
Williams Tennessee News
Meet The Gubernatorial Candidates: Rep. Zach Wamp (R-TN) - Bristol Herald Courier
Bristol Herald Courier, TN - May 24, 2009
Bristol Herald CourierMeet The Gubernatorial Candidates: Rep. Zach Wamp (R-TN)Zach Wamp (R-3rd) stopped at Dino's Restaurant on Saturday, to express his support for Tennessee House Speaker Kent Williams. He ate lunch and met with several supporters. Wamp shares the Republican primary ballot with Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey (Blountville)
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RNC Chairman: 'Kent Williams betrayed every Republican in this state' - Kingsport Times News
Kingsport Times News, TN - May 24, 2009
RNC Chairman: 'Kent Williams betrayed every Republican in this state'By Hank Hayes KINGSPORT — Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele called out self-proclaimed Carter County Republican Kent Williams Saturday night for engineering his surprise election last January as Tennessee House speaker over House
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Florida LB becomes Lucky No.7 for Vols - HawgsIllustrated.com
HawgsIllustrated.com, AR - May 23, 2009
Florida LB becomes Lucky No.7 for VolsBy James Bryant Florida linebacker Ralph Williams got a visit from Tennessee Defensive Coordinator Monte Kiffin this past week. With offer in hand, Williams pulled the trigger and became the seventh committment for the University of Tennessee. Share and Enjoy [?]
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Recruiting: Star system has flaws, coach says - The State
The State, SC - May 25, 2009
Recruiting: Star system has flaws, coach saysHe is hearing from Clemson, Florida, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Tennessee, Boston College and Rutgers. USC is showing interest in offensive lineman Perry Meiklejohn (6-3, 307) of Miami, who has offers from Central Florida and Tennessee State.
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'Orpheus' director likes play's characters - The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com
The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com, MI - May 24, 2009
The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com'Orpheus' director likes play's charactersby Jenn McKee | The Ann Arbor News Lynch Travis has been directing the Blackbird Theatre's new production of Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending" while also performing as Troy Maxson in August Wilson's "Fences" at Performance Network,
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