Tennessee Williams

Camino Real (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Now with a new introduction, the author's original Foreword and Afterword, the one-act play 10 Blocks on the Camino Real, plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar, Michael Paller.

In this phantasmagorical play, the Camino Real is a dead end, a police state in a vaguely Latin American country, and an inescapable condition. Characters from history and literatureDon Quixote, Casanova, Camille, Lord Byroninhabit a place where corruption and indifference have immobilized and nearly destroyed the human spirit. Then, into this netherworld, the archetypal Kilroy arrivesa sailor and all-American guy with a heart as big as the head of baby. Celebrated American playwright John Guare has written an illuminative Introduction for this edition. Also included are Williams' original Foreword and Afterword to the play, the one-act play Ten Blocks on the Camino Real, plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar Michael Paller.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 185
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811226233
• Artikelnr.: 59590155

Autorenporträt

Tennessee Williams (19111983) was America's most influential playwright. Readers have devoured his poetry, essays, short stories, and letters, as well as his fantastic late plays, his remarkable corpus of one-acts, and his greatest playsThe Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Night of the Iguana, The Rose Tattoo, Suddenly Last Summer, and Camino Real. Williams is a cornerstone of New Directionswe publish everything he wrote. He is also our single bestselling author.