Sweet Bird of Youth / A Streetcar Named Desire / The Glass Menagerie
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A Streetcar Named Desire/The Glass Menagerie/Sweet Bird of Youth A Streetcar Named Desireis a revelation... a lyrical work of genuine originality and disturbing power.'Christopher Bigsby, Daily Telegraph Tennessee Williams's sensuous, atmospheric plays transformed the American stage with their passion, exoticism and vibrant characters who rage against their personal demons and the modern world. In A Streetcar Named Desirefading southern belle Blanche Dubois finds her romantic illusions show more brutally shattered; The Glass Menagerieportrays an introverted girl trapped in a fantasy world; and Sweet Bird of Youthshows how we are unable to escape 'the enemy, time'. show lessTags
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Sweet Bird Of Youth; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams I used to think Williams was the best. Vivian Leigh in Streetcar is an amazing performance. Plus, it's always fun to see how old the actresses are playing women who are fading. I still think of his work fondly, although now it just seems melodramatic and overwrought. Or "bigger than life and twice as unnatural".Library copy
I enjoyed these this collection. I'd never read or seen Streetcar before, and it was not at all what I was expecting. Honestly I found the whole thing pretty disturbing, but very well done and realistic. The Glass Menagerie was my favorite, as it was least ...troubled? and I related to the sister the most; it was also more interesting in that it was based on his own family life. I want to read more of Williams' work after this little collection.
Great Introduction to Sweet Bird of Youth by Williams, explaining the autobiographical and violent nature of much of his work.
Weak female characters, sign of the times of when it was published.
A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays
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A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays
by Tennessee Williams
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 · rating details · 572 ratings · 25 reviews
Tennessee Williams’s sensuous, atmospheric plays transformed the American stage with their passion, exoticism and vibrant characters who rage against their personal demons and the modern world. In A Streetcar Named Desire fading southern belle Blanche Dubois finds her romantic illusions brutally shattered; The Glass Menagerie portrays an introverted girl trapped in a fantasy world; and Sweet Bird of Youth shows how we are unable to escape ‘the enemy, time’.
didn't like it it was ok liked it really liked it it was amazing
A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays
by Tennessee Williams
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 · rating details · 572 ratings · 25 reviews
Tennessee Williams’s sensuous, atmospheric plays transformed the American stage with their passion, exoticism and vibrant characters who rage against their personal demons and the modern world. In A Streetcar Named Desire fading southern belle Blanche Dubois finds her romantic illusions brutally shattered; The Glass Menagerie portrays an introverted girl trapped in a fantasy world; and Sweet Bird of Youth shows how we are unable to escape ‘the enemy, time’.
Tennessee Williams' three classic plays compiled in one volume.
Everything that make Williams one of the great dramatists of the 20th Century is illustrated in this volume.
Everything that make Williams one of the great dramatists of the 20th Century is illustrated in this volume.
Esta edición contiene tres dramas de Tennessee Williams:
-Sweet Bird of Youth ("Dulce pájaro de juventud"),
-A Streetcar Named Desire ("Un tranvía llamado Deseo"),
-The Glass Menagerie ("El zoo de cristal").
-Sweet Bird of Youth ("Dulce pájaro de juventud"),
-A Streetcar Named Desire ("Un tranvía llamado Deseo"),
-The Glass Menagerie ("El zoo de cristal").
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After O'Neill, Williams is perhaps the best dramatist the United States has yet produced. Born in his grandfather's rectory in Columbus, Mississippi, Williams and his family later moved to St. Louis. There Williams endured many bad years caused by the abuse of his father and his own anguish over his introverted sister, who was later permanently show more institutionalized. Williams attended the University of Missouri, and, after time out to clerk for a shoe company and for his own mental breakdown, also attended Washington University of St. Louis and the University of Iowa, from which he graduated in 1938. Williams began to write plays in 1935. During 1943 he spent six months as a contract screenwriter for MGM but produced only one script, The Gentleman Caller. When MGM rejected it, Williams turned it into his first major success, The Glass Menagerie (1945). In this intensely autobiographical play, Williams dramatizes the story of Amanda, who dreams of restoring her lost past by finding a gentleman caller for her crippled daughter, and of Amanda's son Tom, who longs to escape from the responsibility of supporting his mother and sister. After The Glass Menagerie,Williams wrote his masterpiece, A Streetcar Named Desire, (1947), along with a steady stream of other plays, among them such major works as Summer and Smoke(1948), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1954), and Suddenly Last Summer (1958). His plays celebrate the "fugitive kind," the sensitive outcasts whose outsider status allows them to perceive the horror of the world and who often give additional witness to that horror by becoming its victims. Stephen S. Stanton has summed up Williams's "virtues and strengths" as "a genius for portraiture, particularly of women, a sensitive ear for dialogue and the rhythms of natural speech, a comic talent often manifesting itself in "black comedy,' and a genuine theatrical flair exhibited in telling stage effects attained through lighting, costume, music, and movements." After The Night of the Iguana (1961), Williams continued to write profusely---and constantly to revise his work---but it became more difficult to get productions of his plays and, if they were produced, to win critical or popular acclaim for them. Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for these two and for The Glass Menagerie and The Night of the Iguana. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Sweet Bird of Youth / A Streetcar Named Desire / The Glass Menagerie
- Original publication date
- 1962
- People/Characters
- Blanche Dubois; Stanley Kowalski; Chance Wayne; Princess Kosmonopolis; Boss Finley; Tom Winfield (show all 12); Amanda Wingfield; Laura Wingfield; Heavenly Finley; Tom Finley, Jr.; Stella Kowalski; Harold Mitchell (Mitch)
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- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; St. Louis, Missouri, USA; St. Cloud, Florida, USA
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