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Student Companion to Tennessee Williams Nancy M. Tischler

Student Companion to Tennessee Williams par Nancy M. Tischler

Student Companion to Tennessee Williams Nancy M. Tischler


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Introduces readers to Tennessee Williams with a biography and a chapter on his literary heritage. His major plays are examined in turn, analyzing plot, characters, themes and style. Each play is then given an alternate reading from formal, feminist, psychological, gay, or theological criticism.

Student Companion to Tennessee Williams Résumé

Student Companion to Tennessee Williams Nancy M. Tischler

From his earliest success in 1945 with the poignant The Glass Menagerie, until his final curtain call with the 1979 production of The Two-Character Play, Tennessee Williams never stopped experimenting with theatrical techniques and striving to explain his richly provocative ideas. This new critical study of Williams traces the shape of the playwright's life and career, both full of wanderings, failures, love, anguish, and unparalleled triumphs. Incorporating much of the new information that is emerging in the recent publication of letters, biographies, and previously unpublished plays, this Student Companion distills a vast body of scholarship to give a fresh and accessible presentation of the key elements of Williams' complicated works. In-depth analysis of 7 of Williams' plays explore the literary styles, themes, and influences Williams drew from poetry, movies, mythology, religion, and personal experiences. This book allows the general reader and theatre enthusiast a glimpse at the shape of his life, his mind, and his work. Readers will come to appreciate why plays such as A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) have come to be considered American classics.

Following the successful series format, this volume introduces readers to Tennessee Williams with a richly detailed biography, followed by a Literary Heritage chapter. A full chapter is devoted to examining each of his major plays. In addition to analysis of character, plot, themes, and style, each play is also given an alternate reading from formal, feminist, psychological, gay, or theological criticism. The concluding bibliography cites all of Williams' dramatic output, as well as his poetry and prose. It also gives many sources for biographical information, criticism of individual works, and original reviews from the first staging of his plays. Students and their teachers should find this volume interesting and easy to follow.

À propos de Nancy M. Tischler

NANCY M. TISCHLER wrote the first book-length study of Williams and his work, Tennessee Williams: Rebellious Puritan. Since then, while teaching at the George Washington University, Susquehanna University, and Pennsylvania State University, she has continued to write books and articles on this amazing playwright. Now retired from Penn State, Tischler continues her work on Williams, editing his letters for New Directions, and serving on boards of journals that focus on Williams. In addition, she has also written on other literary topics including modern drama, Black literature, the American South, Dorothy L. Sayers, and women and Scripture.

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Series Foreword The Life of Tennessee Williams Literary Heritage The Glass Menagerie (1945) A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) Camino Real (1953) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) Sweet Bird of Youth (1959) The Night of the Iguana (1963) Out Cry or The Two-Character Play (1967-79) Bibliographical Essay Bibliography Index

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GOR011428926
9780313312380
0313312389
Student Companion to Tennessee Williams Nancy M. Tischler
Occasion - Très bon état
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2000-08-30
192
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