{"product_id":"theatre-of-tennessee-williams-the-9781408145432","title":"Theatre of Tennessee Williams The","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrenda Murphy\u003c\/b\u003e is the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, USA. Besides her many books and articles on American theatre, she is the editor of the Student Edition of \u003ci\u003eAfter the Fall \u003c\/i\u003eby Arthur Miller (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2011).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Murphy] brings together ... useful information from Williams' work, writings and correspondence to make this a valuable academic work for anyone studying the playwright or American theatre ... A useful and well-written work -- David Chadderton * British Theatre Guide *\u003cbr\u003eBrenda Murphy’s \u003ci\u003eThe Theatre of Tennessee Williams\u003c\/i\u003e is a thoroughly enjoyable read. The book describes the genesis and major themes of all of Williams’s best-known plays and many of those that are less familiar; it provides, as well, an illuminating account of the plays’ first productions and the ways in which they were inflected by their cultural contexts. Murphy writes with lucidity and an eye for the engaging detail, the telling quotation that will appeal to a broad audience. Her book serves as both a useful guide to Williams’s work and an important contribution to the ongoing re-evaluation of that work -- Verna A. Foster, Loyola University * Modern Drama *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1 The 1930s Plays: \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Tower\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCandles to the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFugitive Kind\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNot About Nightingales\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpring Storm\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStairs to the Roof \u003c\/i\u003e2 \u003ci\u003eBattle of Angels \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Orpheus Descending \u003c\/i\u003e3 \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Menagerie \u003c\/i\u003e4 \u003ci\u003eSummer and Smoke \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEccentricities of a Nightingale \u003c\/i\u003e5 \u003ci\u003eA Streetcar Named Desire \u003c\/i\u003e6 \u003ci\u003eCamino Real \u003c\/i\u003e7 \u003ci\u003eCat on Hot Tin Roof \u003c\/i\u003e8 \u003ci\u003eSuddenly Last Summer\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSweet Bird of Youth \u003c\/i\u003e9 \u003ci\u003eThe Night of the Iguana \u003c\/i\u003e10 The Later Plays, 1961-1983: \u003ci\u003eThe Two-Character Play\/Outcry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Gnädiges Fräulein\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eClothes for a Summer Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Mutilated\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Small Craft Warnings\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Vieux Carré\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSomething Cloudy, Something Clear \u003c\/i\u003e11. Critical Perspectives All in the timing: the meanings of \u003ci\u003eStreetcar\u003c\/i\u003e in 1947 and 1951 by Bruce McConachie (University of Pittsburgh, USA) A broken romance: Tennessee Williams and America’s mid-century theatre culture by John S. Bak (Université de Lorraine, France) ‘A vast traumatic eye’: culture absorbed and refigured in Tennessee Williams’s transitional plays by Felicia Hardison Londré (University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA) ‘There’s something not natural here’: grotesque ambiguities in \u003ci\u003eKingdom of Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Cavalier for Milady\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA House Not Meant to Stand \u003c\/i\u003eby Annette Saddik (City University of New York, USA) Chronology Further reading Index Notes on contributors","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769360810327,"sku":"9781408145432","price":31.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781408145432.jpg?v=1758720795","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/theatre-of-tennessee-williams-the-9781408145432","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}