Understanding Tennessee Williams

Informationen zum Autor Alice Griffin is a professor emerita and former director of graduate studies in English at Lehman College of the City University of New York. She is the author of Understanding Lillian Hellman, Understanding Arthur Miller, Rebels and Lovers: Shakespeare's Young Heroes and Heroines, and Shakespeare's Women in Love. Klappentext An introduction to Williams both as a literary figure and as a stage innovator Zusammenfassung Provides an in-depth evaluation of the nine plays that established Tennessee Williams as America's greatest lyric dramatist. Describing him as the first playwright writing in English to combine full-blooded characters! theatricalism! and poetic dialogue! this considers Williams both as a literary figure and as a stage innovator.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Alice Griffin
• Editore: Univ of south carolina press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 28.02.2011
• EAN: 9781611170061
• ISBN: 978-1-61117-006-1
• Pagine: 288
• Serie: Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary Ame
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata