Bücher von Professor Stephen Bottoms (University of Manchester, UK)

Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 and started writing aged forteen as a means of escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable. He spent the Depression years working in a shoe factory, before eventually getting his plays professionally produced in the 40s, starting with The Glass Menagerie which won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. In 1947 A Street Car Named Desire opened in New York and ran for 885 performances. Williams died in 1983.