The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: Vieux Carré. A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur. Clothes for a summer hotel. The red devil battery sign
Title | The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: Vieux Carré. A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur. Clothes for a summer hotel. The red devil battery sign PDF eBook |
Author | Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 396 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780811212014 |
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams presents, in matching format, the plays of one of America's most consistently influential and innovative dramatists. The first five volumes of this ongoing series contain Williams's full-length plays through 1975 and, in addition to the texts themselves, include original cast listings and production notes. Volumes 6 and 7 contain Williams's collected shorter plays. Now available as a paperback, Volume 8 adds to the series four full-length plays written and produced during the last decade of Williams's life.
The Red Devil Battery Sign
Title | The Red Devil Battery Sign PDF eBook |
Author | Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | Dramatists Play Service Inc |
Total Pages | 116 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | American drama |
ISBN | 9780811210478 |
This book is William's symbol for the military-industrial complex and all the dehumanizing trends it represents from mindless cocktail party chatter to bribery of officials to assassination plots directed against those who won't play the game, to attempted coups by right-wing zealots.
A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur
Title | A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur PDF eBook |
Author | Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 100 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780811207577 |
In this masterful play, Tennessee Williams explores the meaning of loneliness and the need for human connection through the lens of four women and the designs and desires they harbor--for themselves and for each other.
Vieux Carré
Title | Vieux Carré PDF eBook |
Author | Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 134 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780811214605 |
Born out of the journals the playwright kept at the time, Tennessee Williams's Vieux Carre is not emotion recollected in tranquillity, but emotion re-created with all the pain, compassion, and wry humor of the playwright's own 1938-39 sojourn in the New Orleans French Quarter vividly intact. The drama takes its form from the shifting scenes of memory, and Williams's surrogate self invites us to focus, in turn, on the various inhabitants of his dilapidated rooming house in the Vieux Carre: the comically desperate landlady, Mrs. Wire; Jane, a properly brought-up young woman from New York making a last grab at pleasure with Tye, the vulgar but appealing strip-joint barker; two decayed gentlewomen politely starving in the garret; and the dying painter Nightingale, who tries to teach the young writer something about love -- both of the body and of the heart. This is a play about the education of the artist, an education in loneliness and despair, in giving and not giving, but most of all in seeing, hearing, feeling, and learning that "writers are shameless spies," who pay dearly for their knowledge and who cannot forget.
Clothes for a Summer Hotel
Title | Clothes for a Summer Hotel PDF eBook |
Author | Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 100 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780811208710 |
This late play by Tennessee Williams explores the troubled relationship between F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
Title | The Theatre of Tennessee Williams PDF eBook |
Author | Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 388 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780811214759 |
Now available as a paperbook, Volume VIII adds to the series' four full-length plays written and produced during the last decade of Williams' life.
The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams
Title | The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams PDF eBook |
Author | Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 348 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780811215084 |
A collection of poetic works by the eminent playwright features substantial piece variants, poems from his plays, and accompanying explanatory notes, in a volume that is complemented by a CD recording of the author's reading of his "Blue Mountain Ballads" and other works.