Tennessee Williams

Sweet Bird of Youth (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Now with an insightful new introduction, the author's original Foreword, and the one-act play, The Enemy: Time, on which Sweet Bird of Youth was based.

Tennessee Williams knew how to tell a good tale, and this steamy, wrenching play about a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, and about the lost innocence and corruption of Chance Wayne, reveals the dark side of the American dreams of youth and fame. Distinguished American playwright Lanford Wilson has written an insightful Introduction for this edition. Also included are Williams' original Foreword to the play; the one-act play The Enemy: Timethe germ for the full-length version, published here for the first time; an essay by Tennessee Williams scholar, Colby H. Kullman; and a chronology of the author's life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811226325
• Artikelnr.: 59593409

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology Introduction Development of the play (Williams's state of mind, process and different iterations
collaboration with Elia Kazan) Historical, Social and Cultural Contexts (segregation
sexual freedom
political climate
Williams's other plays) Characters (allegorical names
African-American characters) Setting (St. Cloud
hotel
Easter weekend) Style and language (poetic realism
imagery
music) Themes (corruption/purity
violence
religion
sex
race
beauty
public image
politics) Productions and response (original cast
subsequent notable productions
reviews
film adaptations) Academic Debate Further Study Sweet Bird of Youth Notes