The theatre of Tennessee Williams / Brenda Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murphy, Brenda, 1950- author.

Lonergan, Patrick, author.

Hurley, Erin, author.

Series:

Critical companions (London, England)

Methuen drama critical companions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983--Criticism and interpretation.

Williams, Tennessee.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 307 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.

Summary:

"This work provides an analysis of Willams's dramatic work. 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 ubiquitous in theatre repertoires, he remains a giant of twentieth century literature and drama. In this major study of his work the author examines his life and career and provides an analysis of more than a score of his key plays, including in-depth studies of major works such as A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and others. She traces the artist figure who features in many of Williams's plays to broaden the discussion beyond the normal reference points."-- Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

The 1930s' plays (1936-1940)

Battle of angels and Orpheus descending (1939-1941 and 1957)

The glass menagerie (1942-1945)

Summer and smoke and Eccentricities of a nightingale (1945-1948 and 1964)

A streetcar named desire (1945-1947)

The rose tattoo and Camino real (1951 and 1946-1953)

Cat on a hot tin roof (1951-1955)

Suddenly last summer and Sweet bird of youth (1953-1959)

The night of the iguana (1940-1948 and 1959-1961)

The later plays (1961-1983)

Critical perspectives. All in the timing: the meanings of Streetcar in 1947 and 1951 / Bruce McConachie

A broken romance: Tennessee Williams and America's mid-century theatre culture / John S. Bak

"A vast traumatic eye": culture absorbed and refigured in Tennessee Williams's transitional plays / Felicia Hardison Londré

"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 stand / Annette J. Saddik.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

1146568883