The Traveling Companion and Other Plays

The Traveling Companion and Other Plays

Author: Tennessee Williams

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780811217088

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"Collected here for the first time, these twelve plays embrace what Time magazine called "the four major concerns of Williams' dramatic imagination: loneliness, love, the violated heart and the valiancy of survival"--Back cover.


The Traveling Companion

The Traveling Companion

Author: Hans Christian Andersen

Publisher: Scandinavia Publishing House

Published: 2015-01-26

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 8771326944

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Thirty of Hans Christian Andersen's most cherished stories in single volumes Illustrator various artists. Known all over the world, these fairytales hold stories of great value and are a source of inspiration for both young and old.


The Magic Tower and Other One-act Plays

The Magic Tower and Other One-act Plays

Author: Tennessee Williams

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780811219204

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This new volume gathers some of Williams' most exuberant early work and includes one-acts that he would later expand to powerful full-length dramas, including "The Pretty Trap," a cheerful take on "The Glass Menagerie," and "Interior: Panic," a stunning precursor to "A Streetcar Named Desire."


The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

Author: Tennessee Williams

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780811211963

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Volume III of the series includes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Orpheus Descending (1957), and Suddenly Last Summer (1958). The first, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Award, has proved every bit as successful as William's earlier A Streetcar Named Desire. The other two plays, though different in kind, both have something of the quality of Greek tragedy in 20th-century settings, bringing about catharsis through ritual death.


Stopped Rocking and Other Screenplays

Stopped Rocking and Other Screenplays

Author: Tennessee Williams

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780811209021

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When Tennessee Williams died in the winter of 1983 he left among his voluminous papers the texts of four screenplays none of which had been made into or was even being considered for a film at that time.


27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays

27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays

Author: Tennessee Williams

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1966-01-17

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 081122080X

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The thirteen one-act plays collected in this volume include some of Tennessee Williams's finest and most powerful work. They are full of the perception of life as it is, and the passion for life as it ought to be, which have made The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire classics of the American theater. Only one of these plays (The Purification) is written in verse, but in all of them the approach to character is by way of poetic revelation. Whether Williams is writing of derelict roomers in a New Orleans boarding house (The Lady of Larkspur Lotion) or the memories of a venerable traveling salesman (The Last of My Solid Gold Watches) or of delinquent children (This Property is Condemned), his insight into human nature is that of the poet. He can compress the basic meaning of life—its pathos or its tragedy, its bravery or the quality of its love—into one small scene or a few moments of dialogue. Mr. Williams's views on the role of the little theater in American culture are contained in a stimulating essay, "Something wild...," which serves as an introduction to this collection.


Spring Storm

Spring Storm

Author: Tennessee Williams

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780811214223

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A crucible of so many elements that would later shape and characterize Williams's work.--World Literature Today


Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess

Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess

Author: Annette J. Saddik

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-01-26

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1107076684

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This book explores Williams' late plays in terms of a 'theatre of excess', which seeks liberation through exaggeration, chaos, ambiguity, and laughter.


Something Cloudy, Something Clear

Something Cloudy, Something Clear

Author: Tennessee Williams

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780811213110

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The playwright dramatizes his experiences in Cape Cod during the pivotal summer of 1940, when he met his first great love and openly acknowledged his homosexuality.