The theatre of Tennessee Williams / / Brenda Murphy.
Perfect for students of English Literature, Theatre Studies and American Studies at college and university, The Theatre of Tennessee Williams provides a lucid and stimulating analysis of Willams'' dramatic work by one of America''s leading scholars. With the centennial of his bir...
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Place / Publishing House: | London : : Bloomsbury Publishing,, 2014. |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Critical companions (Methuen Drama)
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
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505 | 0 | |a Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; A Note on Texts; Chapter 1 The 1930s' Plays (1936-1940); Williams in the Thirties; A Literary Bohemia: The Magic Tower; "Group consciousness": Candles to the Sun; "The Sensitive non-conformist individual": Fugitive Kind; The Lure of Escape: Not About Nightingales; Sexual Confusion: Spring Storm; An Escape for the Wild of Heart: Stairs to the Roof; Chapter 2 Battle of Angels and Orpheus Descending (1939-1941 and 1957); "The sensitive, non-conformist individual": Battle of Angels | |
505 | 8 | |a The Artist in Hell: Orpheus DescendingChapter 3 The Glass Menagerie (1942-1945); Chapter 4 Summer and Smoke and Eccentricities of a Nightingale (1945-1948 and 1964); Emotional Paralysis: Summer and Smoke; "The different and odd and lonely": Eccentricities of a Nightingale; Chapter 5 A Streetcar Named Desire (1945-1947); Chapter 6 The Rose Tattoo and Camino Real (1951 and 1946-1953); Modern Fabliau: The Rose Tattoo; Romantics in the Real World: Camino Real; Chapter 7 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1951-1955); Chapter 8 Suddenly Last Summer and Sweet Bird of Youth (1953-1959) | |
505 | 8 | |a "This hideous story": Suddenly Last Summer"The enemy, time": Sweet Bird of Youth; Chapter 9 The Night of the Iguana (1940-1948 and 1959-1961); Chapter 10 The Later Plays (1961-1983); "Stoned Age"; The Artist Plays; Grotesque Metaphor: The Gnädiges Fräulein; "Ghost play": Clothes for a Summer Hotel; Bohemians and Misfits; "The wayward and deformed": The Mutilated; Fragile Community: Small Craft Warnings; Memory; From Innocence to Experience: Vieux Carré; "Double exposure": Something Cloudy, Something Clear; Critical Perspectives; All in the Timing: The Meanings of Streetcar in 1947 and 1951 | |
505 | 8 | |a Two Streetcars in Evolutionary PerspectiveStreetcar in a Changing American Culture; Dynamic Processing in 1947 and 1951; Conclusion; A Broken Romance: Tennessee Williams and America's Mid-Century Theatre Culture; "Stupidity is no longer profitable": Williams and his Critics, 1937-1948; "A radical departure": Williams and his Critics, 1951-1958; "A butterfly to a cannon": Williams and his Critics, 1959 and Beyond; "Assassins, before, now, and after": Conclusion; "A Vast Traumatic Eye": Culture Absorbed and Refigured in Tennessee Williams's Transitional Plays | |
505 | 8 | |a "There's something not natural here": Grotesque Ambiguities in Tennessee Williams's Kingdom of Earth, A Cavalier for Milady, and A House Not Meant to StandConclusion; Notes; Critical Perspectives; Chronology; Further Reading; Works by Tennessee Williams; Unpublished Manuscripts; Biographies, Interviews, Documentaries, and Memoirs; Bibliographies and Reference Works; Reviews and Criticism of Individual Plays; Other Williams Criticism; Other Works Cited; Notes On Contributors; Index | |
520 | |a Perfect for students of English Literature, Theatre Studies and American Studies at college and university, The Theatre of Tennessee Williams provides a lucid and stimulating analysis of Willams'' dramatic work by one of America''s leading scholars. With the centennial of his birth celebrated amid a flurry of conferences devoted to his work in 2011, and his plays a central part of any literature and drama curriculum and uibiquitous in theatre repertoires, he remains a giant of twentieth century literature and drama. In Brenda Murphy''s major study of his work she examines his life and career | ||
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