 Tennessee Williams. UH Photographs Collection. | | 24,997 (36,616) | 417 | 721 |  (3.85) | 131 | 0 | After O'Neill, Williams is perhaps the best dramatist the United States has yet produced. Born in his grandfather's rectory in Columbus, Mississippi, Williams and his family later moved to St. Louis. There Williams endured many bad years caused by the abuse of his father and his own anguish over his introverted sister, who was later permanently institutionalized. Williams attended the University of Missouri, and, after time out to clerk for a shoe company and for his own mental breakdown, also attended Washington University of St. Louis and the University of Iowa, from which he graduated in 1938. Williams began to write plays in 1935. During 1943 he spent six months as a contract screenwriter for MGM but produced only one script, The Gentleman Caller. When MGM rejected it, Williams turned it into his first major success, The Glass Menagerie (1945). In this intensely autobiographical play, Williams dramatizes the story of Amanda, who dreams of restoring her lost past by finding a gentleman caller for her crippled daughter, and of Amanda's son Tom, who longs to escape from the responsibility of supporting his mother and sister. After The Glass Menagerie,Williams wrote his masterpiece, A Streetcar Named Desire, (1947), along with a steady stream of other plays, among them such major works as Summer and Smoke(1948), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1954), and Suddenly Last Summer (1958). His plays celebrate the "fugitive kind," the sensitive outcasts whose outsider status allows them to perceive the horror of the world and who often give additional witness to that horror by becoming its victims. Stephen S. Stanton has summed up Williams's "virtues and strengths" as "a genius for portraiture, particularly of women, a sensitive ear for dialogue and the rhythms of natural speech, a comic talent often manifesting itself in "black comedy,' and a genuine theatrical flair exhibited in telling stage effects attained through lighting, costume, music, and movements." After The Night of the Iguana (1961), Williams continued to write profusely---and constantly to revise his work---but it became more difficult to get productions of his plays and, if they were produced, to win critical or popular acclaim for them. Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for these two and for The Glass Menagerie and The Night of the Iguana. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Un tramway nommé Désir … (plus d'informations) |
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Tennessee Williams a 4 évènements passés. (show)  Margaret Thornton signs CHARLESTON Description A gifted writer makes her fiction debut with this lyrical and haunting story of missed chances and enduring love, set against the backdrop of high society Charleston, which asks the eternal question: can we ever truly go home again? When Eliza Poinsett left the elegant world of Charleston for college, she never expected it would take her ten years to return. Now she is an art historian in London with a charming Etonian boyfriend who adores her. But the past catches up with her when she runs into Henry, a former boyfriend from Charleston, at a wedding in the English countryside.
Already unnerved by the earlier encounter, Eliza's carefully guarded equilibrium is shattered when she meets Henry again in Charleston, where she's come for her stepsister's debut, a decade after she first left. Set against a backdrop of stately homes, the seductive Lowcountry landscape, and the entangled lives of families who trace their ancestors back for generations, 2 hinges on Eliza's difficult choice: must she risk everything for which she has worked so hard to be with the only man she has ever truly loved?
2 is an evocative, melancholy novel about one woman's love--for both a man and an unforgettable city. Emotionally resonant, beguiling in its atmosphere, it illuminates the elusive notion of home, and explores whether we can ever truly go back to the place--and the people--that indelibly shaped us.
About the Author
Margaret Bradham Thornton is the editor of Tennessee Williams's Notebooks, for which she received the Bronze ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award for Autobiography/Memoir and the C. Hugh Holman Prize for the best volume of southern literary scholarship, given by the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. She is a native of Charleston, a graduate of Princeton University, and currently resides in Palm Beach, Florida.
Location: Street: 160 Courthouse Sq City: Oxford, Province: Mississippi Postal Code: 38655-3914 Country: United States (ajouté depuis IndieBound)… (plus d'informations) Opera on the Couch discusses Merola's production of A Streetcar Named Desire Merola Prelude: An Opera Talk Join Jean Kellog, Merola Executive Director, as she talks about Merola's first summer opera, A Streetcar Named Desire, with the production's music director, Mark Morash, and director Jose Maria Condemi. Guests are subject to change. Admission is free Click here for more information about Merola Opera
Location: Books Inc. Street: 601 Van Ness City: San Francisco, Province: California Country: United States (ajouté depuis IndieBound)… (plus d'informations) Gay Men's Reading Group: Memoirs Join us for a reading group discussion of Memoirs by Tennessee Williams! Left Bank Books - Central West End (downstairs) Williams's thoroughly honest memoir, with its open talk of homosexuality, alcoholism/drug addiction, and mental illness, was quite the eyeopener in 1975. His work and partying made him buddies with many famous writers and actors of the day (Capote, Brando, etc.), whom he discusses. Besides all the gossip, the book also provides insight into one of the world's great dramatists.
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| | Courte biographie | | | Notice de désambigüisation | | | Améliorer cette page d'auteurCombiner ou séparer des œuvresSéparation d'auteursTennessee Williams est actuellement considéré comme un(e) "auteur unique". Si une ou plusieurs œuvres sont le fait d'un auteur homonyme distinct(e), n'hésitez pas et procédez à la séparation. ComprendTennessee Williams comprend 7 noms. Vous pouvez vérifier et séparer les noms. Combiner avec…
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