Tennessee williams plays 1937-1955

Tennessee Williams''s explosive, often violent, plays shattered conventional proprieties and transformed the American stage. They inspired some of the most famous productions and performances in theatrical and film history, and they continue to grip audiences all over the world. Now, in an authoritative two-volume edition, The Library of America collects the plays that define Williams''s extraordinary range and achievement. This first volume begins with the stunning rediscovered plays of Williams''s early career: Forging an idiom that uniquely blended lyricism and brutality, a tragic sense of life and a genius for comic observation, he continued to revolutionize the American theater with a series of masterpieces: the poignant and melancholy This edition includes a newly researched chronology of Tennessee Williams''s life, explanatory notes (including cast lists of many of the original productions), and an essay on the texts.

Product details

• Authors: Mel Gussow, Kenneth Holditch, Tennessee Williams
• Assisted by: Mel Gussow (Editor), Kenneth Holditch (Editor)
• Publisher: Library of America
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2000
• EAN: 9781883011864
• ISBN: 978-1-883011-86-4
• No. of pages: 975
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 206 mm x 29 mm
• Series: The Library of America; Library of America
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama