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The theatre of Tennessee Williams.
LIBRA PS3545.I5365 A19 1990 copy 2 v.1-v.3,v.8
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983.
- Series:
- New Directions paperbook ; 736, 797, 919.
- New Directions paperbook
- Standardized Title:
- Plays
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drama--Collections.
- Drama.
- American drama.
- Genre:
- Collections.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-3)
- Physical Description:
- 8 volumes ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions, 1990-<1994>
- Summary:
- The Theatre of Tennessee Williams brings together in matching format the plays of one of America's most persistently influential and innovative dramatists. Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes the original cast listings and production notes for all full-length plays.
- Now available as a New Directions Paperbook, Volume IV contains a wonderfully diverse collection of Williams's works. Sweet Bird of Youth (1959) is a dramatic study of a fading Hollywood actress, who tries to recapture her youth through a young drifter half her age. In a lighter mood, Period of Adjustment (1960) tells of the marital troubles of two "Middle American" couples, a departure for the playwright who himself labeled it a "serious comedy." The Night of the Iguana (1961), in sharp contrast, tells of human frailty and redemptive strength on the West Coast of Mexico.
- Contents:
- v. 1. Battle of the angels ; The glass menagerie ; A streetcar named Desire
- v. 2. The eccentricities of a nightingale ; Summer and smoke ; The rose tattoo ; Camino Real
- v. 3. Cat on a hot tin roof ; Orpheus descending ; Suddenly last summer
- v. 4. Sweet bird of youth ; Period of adjustment ; The night of the iguana
- v. 5. The milk train doesn't stop here anymore ; Kingdom of Earth (The seven descents of Myrtle) ; Small craft warnings ; The two-character play
- v. 6. 27 wagons full of cotton ; The purification ; The lady of larkspur lotion ; The last of my solid gold watches ; Portrait of a madonna ; Auto-da-fé ; Lord Byron's love letter ; The strangest kind of romance ; The long good-bye ; Hello from Bertha ; This property is condemned ; Talk to me like the rain... ; Something unspoken ; The unsatisfactory supper ; Steps must be gentle ; The demolition downtown
- v. 7. In the bar of a Tokyo hotel ; I rise in flame, cried the Phoenix ; The mutilated ; I can't imagine tomorrow ; Confessional ; The frosted glass coffin ; The gnädiges Fräulein ; A perfect analysis given by a parrot ; Lifeboat drill ; Now the cats with jewelled claws ; This is the peaceable kingdom
- v. 8. Vieux carré ; A lovely Sunday for creve coeur ; Clothes for a summer hotel ; The red devil battery sign.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 imperfect: v.2, v.4-7 wanting.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 3 v.3-v.4, v.6-v.7 has bookmark "Lyle Leverich's Tom: The unknown Tennessee Williams Is..." laid in at front.
- ISBN:
- 0811211355
- 9780811211352
- 9780811211369
- 0811211363
- 9780811211963
- 0811211967
- 9780811212571
- 0811212572
- 9780811211376
- 0811211371
- 9780811212151
- 0811212157
- 9780811212861
- 0811212866
- 9780811214759
- 0811214753
- OCLC:
- 21443649
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