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Tennessee Williams (1911–1983)

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After O'Neill, Williams is perhaps the best dramatist the United States has yet produced. Born in his grandfather's rectory in Columbus, Mississippi, Williams and his family later moved to St. Louis. There Williams endured many bad years caused by the abuse of his father and his own anguish over visa mer his introverted sister, who was later permanently institutionalized. Williams attended the University of Missouri, and, after time out to clerk for a shoe company and for his own mental breakdown, also attended Washington University of St. Louis and the University of Iowa, from which he graduated in 1938. Williams began to write plays in 1935. During 1943 he spent six months as a contract screenwriter for MGM but produced only one script, The Gentleman Caller. When MGM rejected it, Williams turned it into his first major success, The Glass Menagerie (1945). In this intensely autobiographical play, Williams dramatizes the story of Amanda, who dreams of restoring her lost past by finding a gentleman caller for her crippled daughter, and of Amanda's son Tom, who longs to escape from the responsibility of supporting his mother and sister. After The Glass Menagerie,Williams wrote his masterpiece, A Streetcar Named Desire, (1947), along with a steady stream of other plays, among them such major works as Summer and Smoke(1948), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1954), and Suddenly Last Summer (1958). His plays celebrate the "fugitive kind," the sensitive outcasts whose outsider status allows them to perceive the horror of the world and who often give additional witness to that horror by becoming its victims. Stephen S. Stanton has summed up Williams's "virtues and strengths" as "a genius for portraiture, particularly of women, a sensitive ear for dialogue and the rhythms of natural speech, a comic talent often manifesting itself in "black comedy,' and a genuine theatrical flair exhibited in telling stage effects attained through lighting, costume, music, and movements." After The Night of the Iguana (1961), Williams continued to write profusely---and constantly to revise his work---but it became more difficult to get productions of his plays and, if they were produced, to win critical or popular acclaim for them. Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for these two and for The Glass Menagerie and The Night of the Iguana. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Tennessee Williams

Linje Lusta (1947) 7,979 exemplar
The Glass Menagerie (1945) — Författare — 6,546 exemplar
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1975) 2,940 exemplar
The Night of the Iguana (1962) 533 exemplar
Collected Stories (1985) 508 exemplar
Memoirs (1975) 500 exemplar
Plays 1937-1955 (2000) 413 exemplar
Suddenly Last Summer (1958) 365 exemplar
Mrs Stones romerska vår (1950) 331 exemplar
Plays 1957-1980 (2000) 315 exemplar
Summer and Smoke (1948) 286 exemplar
Ungdoms ljuva fågel (1959) 267 exemplar
A Streetcar Named Desire [1951 film] (1951) — Original play — 209 exemplar
The Rose Tattoo (1951) — Författare — 198 exemplar
Orpheus Descending (1958) 172 exemplar
Camino Real (1948) 170 exemplar
Moise and the World of Reason (1975) 161 exemplar
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof [1958 film] (1958) — Play — 156 exemplar
One Arm and Other Stories (1948) 128 exemplar
Baby Doll (1956) 109 exemplar
Tennessee Williams: Eight Plays (1979) 100 exemplar
Hard Candy: A Book of Stories (1954) 99 exemplar
Small Craft Warnings (1972) 85 exemplar
Notebooks (2006) 85 exemplar
Methuen Student Editions : Williams : The Glass Menagerie (2000) — Författare — 81 exemplar
Suddenly, Last Summer [1959 film] (1959) — Original play — 78 exemplar
Vieux Carré (1977) — Författare — 75 exemplar
Not About Nightingales (1998) 75 exemplar
Dragon Country (1970) 67 exemplar
Period of Adjustment (1960) 64 exemplar
In the Winter of Cities (1956) 63 exemplar
American blues (1948) 43 exemplar
The Two-Character Play (1979) 42 exemplar
A Streetcar Named Desire / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1963) — Författare — 39 exemplar
Baby Doll [1956 film] (1956) — Screenwriter — 39 exemplar
Spring Storm (1999) — Författare — 38 exemplar
A Streetcar Named Desire / The Glass Menagerie (1957) — Författare — 36 exemplar
Out Cry (1973) 33 exemplar
Tales of Desire (2010) 32 exemplar
The Rose Tattoo / Camino Real (1956) 32 exemplar
Where I Live: Selected Essays (1978) 32 exemplar
Selected Plays (1977) 32 exemplar
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone [1961 film] (1962) — Författare — 24 exemplar
The Fugitive Kind [1960 film] (1960) — Screenwriter — 24 exemplar
Stairs to the Roof (2000) 24 exemplar
The Red Devil Battery Sign (1988) 20 exemplar
The Rose Tattoo [1955 film] (2004) — Screenplay — 18 exemplar
A Streetcar Named Desire [1995 TV movie] (1995) — Författare — 18 exemplar
In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (1969) 16 exemplar
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond [2008 film] (2010) — Screenwriter — 14 exemplar
Piezas cortas (1984) 13 exemplar
Candles to the Sun (2004) 13 exemplar
Androgyne, Mon Amour (1977) 12 exemplar
This Property is Condemned (1966) 10 exemplar
The rose tattoo / Camino Real / Sweet bird of youth (1964) — Författare — 10 exemplar
Battle of Angels (1975) 9 exemplar
Teatro (1999) 8 exemplar
Iets van Tolstoi 8 exemplar
I "blues" (1952) 7 exemplar
You Touched Me! (1947) 6 exemplar
Toutes ses nouvelles (1989) 5 exemplar
The Mutilated. (1894) 4 exemplar
La statue mutilee. nouvelles. (1970) — Författare — 4 exemplar
Something Unspoken 4 exemplar
Essential Tennessee Williams (2007) 4 exemplar
The Lady of Larkspur Lotion (2007) 3 exemplar
Διηγήματα (1996) 3 exemplar
Théâtre, roman, mémoires (2011) 3 exemplar
Mal trago (Caramelo fundido) (2010) 3 exemplar
Tennessee Williams' South (2006) 3 exemplar
The Dark Room 2 exemplar
EL PAIS DEL DRAGÓN — Författare — 2 exemplar
Methuen Student Editions : Williams : Sweet Bird of Youth (2010) — Författare — 2 exemplar
Playboy interview 2 exemplar
At Liberty 2 exemplar
Garden District: Two Plays (1959) 2 exemplar
UN EMPEÑO CABALLERESCO. (1972) — Författare — 2 exemplar
Théâtre II 2 exemplar
Grand (1964) 2 exemplar
Portrait of a Madonna — Författare — 2 exemplar
Une femme nommée moise (1992) 1 exemplar
Caramelo fundido 1 exemplar
Arena 1936 1 exemplar
Meisterdramen (1982) 1 exemplar
A Streetcar Named Desire [1984 TV movie] — Författare — 1 exemplar
Tutto finito 1 exemplar
HASTA LLEGAR A ENTENDERSE. (1964) 1 exemplar
7 Selected Plays 1 exemplar
Hello From Bertha 1 exemplar
A ultima primavera 1 exemplar
Snowfall 1 exemplar
Weird Show (1971) 1 exemplar
Tutti i racconti 1 exemplar

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24 Favorite One Act Plays (1958) — Bidragsgivare — 284 exemplar
Six Modern American Plays (1951) — Bidragsgivare — 272 exemplar
The Literary Cat (1977) — Bidragsgivare — 241 exemplar
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Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time (Stonewall Inn Editions) (1836) — Bidragsgivare — 179 exemplar
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The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 68 exemplar
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10 Short Plays (1963) — Bidragsgivare — 62 exemplar
Gay Sunshine Interviews. Vol. 1 (1978) — Interviewee — 60 exemplar
The Night of the Iguana [1964 film] (1961) — Original play — 52 exemplar
Contemporary Drama - 11 Plays (1956) — Bidragsgivare — 46 exemplar
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The Signet Book of Short Plays (2004) — Bidragsgivare — 28 exemplar
Pulitzer Prize Reader (1961) — Bidragsgivare — 27 exemplar
Great Short Stories of the World (1965) — Bidragsgivare — 25 exemplar
The Weird Fiction Megapack: 25 Stories from Weird Tales (2014) — Bidragsgivare — 24 exemplar
The Unspeakable People (1969) — Bidragsgivare — 24 exemplar
This Property is Condemned [1966 film] (1966) — Original play — 24 exemplar
Best Plays of the Sixties (1970) — Bidragsgivare — 23 exemplar
The Best American Short Stories 1973 (1973) — Bidragsgivare — 23 exemplar
Fiends and Creatures (1975) — Bidragsgivare — 22 exemplar
Twentieth-Century American Drama (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 22 exemplar
Best American Plays: 8th Series, 1974-1982 (1983) — Bidragsgivare — 19 exemplar
Plays for reading (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 16 exemplar
The Best American Short Stories 1953 (1953) — Bidragsgivare — 15 exemplar
Mississippi Writers: An Anthology (1991) — Bidragsgivare — 14 exemplar
Mummy: A Chrestomathy of Cryptology (1980) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
New World Writing: First Mentor Selection (1952) — Bidragsgivare — 11 exemplar
One Act Plays for Our Times (1973) — Bidragsgivare — 10 exemplar
The Glass Menagerie [1987 film] (1988) — Original Story — 10 exemplar
Summer and Smoke [1961 film] (1991) — Original story — 9 exemplar
The Glass Menagerie [1973 film] (2003) — Original story — 8 exemplar
Sweet Bird of Youth [1989 film] (1989) — Original play — 7 exemplar
The Best American Short Stories 1951 (1951) — Bidragsgivare — 6 exemplar
Ancient Egyptian Supernatural Tales (2016) — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof [1984 TV movie] (1984) — Original story — 5 exemplar
Laurence Olivier Presents [TV series] (2006) — original play — 4 exemplar
Twenty-Three Modern Stories (1963) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
Boom [1968 film] (2019) — Screenwriter — 4 exemplar
Weird Tales Volume 12 Number 2, August 1928 — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Teatro Norteamericano contemporaneo — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Amores de mujer : (de los 15 a los 70 ) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
50 seltsame Geschichten — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre, Volume 3 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
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Verk
324
Även av
97
Medlemmar
28,036
Popularitet
#722
Betyg
3.8
Recensioner
305
ISBN
695
Språk
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