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Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller , he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.
The playwright returned to his home in Key West and began working on what was now called A House Not Meant to Stand, a title suggested by a production assistant on Tennessee Laughs. Williams called it a " Southern Gothic spook sonata," a deliberate reference to an August Strindberg play known as The Ghost Sonata in its English translation.
Though granting that Tennessee Williams is "an interesting writer and a sensitive man," and that these eleven works of fiction in the collection are "electrifying," The New York Times critic James Kelly reports: "[E]ven healthy optimism is nearly invisible in the lurid studies of perversion, madness and human decay covered…"
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore is a play in a prologue and six scenes, written by Tennessee Williams.He told John Gruen in 1965 that it was "the play that I worked on longest," and he premiered a version of it at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, in July 1962.
The Traveling Companion and Other Plays is a collection of experimental plays written by American playwright Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions and in New York City in 2008. [2] It is edited by Williams scholar Annette J. Saddik , [ 3 ] who provides the introduction.
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The story is told from a third-person omniscient point-of-view.. Miss Edith Jelkes, a pretty and refined 30-year-old descends from the gentry of the Old South.Her character and motivations derive from a dichotomous heritage: one branch of the family consists of alcoholics and artists, prone to licentiousness; the other branch are socially conservative celibates.
In memory of, we decided to take a look back of some his greatest quotes from the man himself. 11.) Dead Poet's Society %shareLinks-quote="Carpe Diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives ...