Tennessee Williams's The glass menagerie / edited and with an introcution by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical interpretations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. Glass menagerie.

Physical Description:

vii, 178 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

Updated edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, [2007]

Summary:

Premiering in 1944, The Glass Menagerie was Tennessee Williams's first popular success. Today the play is considered one of Williams's masterpieces and is frequently performed. This updated volume is an essential resource for those seeking to deepen their appreciation of this fascinating character study.

Contents:

The glass menagerie / Nancy M. Tischler

Tennessee Williams, theatre poet in prose / Frank Durham

The glass menagerie : "It's no tragedy, Freckles" / Thomas E. Scheye

The composition of The glass menagerie : an argument for complexity / Brian Parker

'The glass menagerie' (1944) / Roger Boxill

"More than just a little Chekhovian" : The sea gull as a source for the characters in The glass menagerie / Drewey Wayne Gunn

Entering The glass menagerie / C.W.E. Bigsby

"Where memory begins" : new Texas light on The glass menagerie / Gilbert Debusscher

The Blue Rose of St. Louis : Laura, romanticism, and The glass menagerie / Bert Cardullo

Tennessee Williams's Tom Wingfield and Georg Kaiser's cashier : a contextual comparison / William Fordyce

Flying the Jolly Roger : images of escape and selfhood in Tennessee Williams's The glass menagerie / Lori Leathers Single.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-167) and index.

ISBN:

0791093492

9780791093498

OCLC:

74492038