Theatre of Tennessee Williams brings together in a matching format the plays of one of Americas most influential and innovative dramatists.
Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes the original cast listings and production notes, Volume leads with Battle of Angels, Williams first produced play, an early version of Orpheus Descending.
This is followed by the texts of his first great popular successes: The Glass Menagerie and the Pulitzer Prizewinning A Streetcar Named Desire , which established Williamss reputation once and for all as a genius of the modern American theatre.
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Thomas Lanier Williams III, better known by the nickname Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright of the twentieth century who received many of the top theatrical awards for his work.
He moved to New Orleans inand changed his name to Tennessee, the state of his fathers birth, Raised in St. Louis, Missouri, after years of obscurity, at agehe became famous with the success of The Glass Menageriein New York City.
This play closely reflected his own unhappy family background, It was the first of a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Sweet Bird of Youth, and The Night of the Iguana.
With his later work, he attempted a new style that did not ap Thomas Lanier Williams III, better known by the nickname Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright of the twentieth century who received many of the top theatrical awards for his work.
He moved to New Orleans inand changed his name to "Tennessee," the state of his father's birth, Raised in St. Louis, Missouri, after years of obscurity, at agehe became famous with the success of The Glass Menageriein New York City.
This play closely reflected his own unhappy family background, It was the first of a string of successes, including
A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Sweet Bird of Youth, and The Night of the Iguana.
With his later work, he attempted a new style that did not appeal to audiences, His drama A Streetcar Named Desire is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of theth century, alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
Much of Williams' most acclaimed work has been adapted for the cinema, He also wrote short stories, poetry, essays and a volume of memoirs, In, four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame, From Wikipedia sitelink,