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Tennessee Williams. 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.
210. ISBN. 978-1135114442. One Arm and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by Tennessee Williams published by New Direction in 1948. [ 1] The volume was released the same year that Williams received the Pulitzer Prize for his play A Streetcar Named Desire. [ 2]
A St. Louis apartment, late 1930s. The Glass Menagerie[2] is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on its author, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister.
The Palooka. The Palooka is a 1937 one-act about an old has-been boxer. The characters are The Palooka (Galveston Joe), The Kid and The Trainer. The Kid is nervous about his first fight, and The Palooka relieves the Kid's anxiety by telling about the fictional life he wanted to lead after he retired as Galveston Joe.
First edition cover (New Directions, 1998)Not About Nightingales is a three-act play by Tennessee Williams.He wrote the play late in 1938, after reading in a newspaper about striking inmates of a Holmesburg, Pennsylvania prison in August 1938, who had been placed in "an isolation unit lined with radiators, where four died from temperatures approaching 150 degrees.".
Suddenly Last Summer is a one-act play by Tennessee Williams, written in New York in 1957. [1] It opened off Broadway on January 7, 1958, as part of a double bill with another of Williams' one-acts, Something Unspoken (written in London in 1951). [2]: 52 The presentation of the two plays was given the overall title Garden District, but Suddenly ...
Orpheus Descending is a three-act play by Tennessee Williams. It was first presented on Broadway on March 17, 1957, with Maureen Stapleton and Cliff Robertson, under the direction of Harold Clurman, but had only a brief run (68 performances) and modest success. [1] It was revived on Broadway in 1989, directed by Peter Hall and starring Vanessa ...
The Glass Menagerie is a 1987 American drama film directed by Paul Newman. It is a replication of a production of Tennessee Williams ' 1944 play of the same title that originated at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and then transferred to the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. [3] The film is the fourth adaptation of the Williams ...