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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) 7,986 exemplar
The Glass Menagerie (1945) — Författare — 6,636 exemplar
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1975) 2,934 exemplar
The Night of the Iguana (1962) 531 exemplar
Collected Stories (1985) 506 exemplar
Memoirs (1975) 499 exemplar
Plays 1937-1955 (2000) 413 exemplar
Suddenly Last Summer (1958) 365 exemplar
Mrs Stones romerska vår (1950) 329 exemplar
Plays 1957-1980 (2000) 315 exemplar
Summer and Smoke (1948) 284 exemplar
Ungdoms ljuva fågel (1959) 269 exemplar
A Streetcar Named Desire [1951 film] (1951) — Original play — 209 exemplar
The Rose Tattoo (1951) — Författare — 197 exemplar
Orpheus Descending (1958) 172 exemplar
Camino Real (1948) 170 exemplar
Moise and the World of Reason (1975) 162 exemplar
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof [1958 film] (1958) — Play — 156 exemplar
One Arm and Other Stories (1948) 128 exemplar
Baby Doll (1956) 108 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) 84 exemplar
Suddenly, Last Summer [1959 film] (1959) — Original play — 78 exemplar
Vieux Carré (1977) — Författare — 75 exemplar
Not About Nightingales (1998) 74 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
Baby Doll [1956 film] (1956) — Screenwriter — 39 exemplar
A Streetcar Named Desire / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1963) — Författare — 39 exemplar
Spring Storm (1999) — Författare — 38 exemplar
A Streetcar Named Desire / The Glass Menagerie (1957) — Författare — 36 exemplar
Out Cry (1973) 33 exemplar
Where I Live: Selected Essays (1978) 32 exemplar
Tales of Desire (2010) 32 exemplar
The Rose Tattoo / Camino Real (1956) 32 exemplar
Selected Plays (1977) 32 exemplar
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone [1961 film] (1962) — Författare — 24 exemplar
Stairs to the Roof (2000) 24 exemplar
The Fugitive Kind [1960 film] (1960) — Screenwriter — 24 exemplar
The Red Devil Battery Sign (1988) 20 exemplar
A Streetcar Named Desire [1995 TV movie] (1995) — Författare — 18 exemplar
The Rose Tattoo [1955 film] (2004) — Screenplay — 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
The rose tattoo / Camino Real / Sweet bird of youth (1964) — Författare — 10 exemplar
This Property is Condemned (1966) 10 exemplar
Battle of Angels (1975) 9 exemplar
Iets van Tolstoi 8 exemplar
Teatro (1999) 8 exemplar
I "blues" (1952) 7 exemplar
You Touched Me! (1947) 6 exemplar
Toutes ses nouvelles (1989) 5 exemplar
La statue mutilee. nouvelles. (1970) — Författare — 4 exemplar
The Mutilated. (1894) 4 exemplar
Something Unspoken 4 exemplar
Essential Tennessee Williams (2007) 4 exemplar
Tennessee Williams' South (2006) 3 exemplar
Διηγήματα (1996) 3 exemplar
The Lady of Larkspur Lotion (2007) 3 exemplar
Théâtre, roman, mémoires (2011) 3 exemplar
Mal trago (Caramelo fundido) (2010) 3 exemplar
Théâtre II 2 exemplar
Grand (1964) 2 exemplar
The Dark Room 2 exemplar
EL PAIS DEL DRAGÓN — Författare — 2 exemplar
Playboy interview 2 exemplar
UN EMPEÑO CABALLERESCO. (1972) — Författare — 2 exemplar
Garden District: Two Plays (1959) 2 exemplar
At Liberty 2 exemplar
Portrait of a Madonna — Författare — 2 exemplar
A Streetcar Named Desire [1984 TV movie] — Författare — 1 exemplar
Weird Show (1971) 1 exemplar
Arena 1936 1 exemplar
Une femme nommée moise (1992) 1 exemplar
Caramelo fundido 1 exemplar
Snowfall 1 exemplar
7 Selected Plays 1 exemplar
A ultima primavera 1 exemplar
Tutto finito 1 exemplar
Meisterdramen (1982) 1 exemplar
Hello From Bertha 1 exemplar
Tutti i racconti 1 exemplar
HASTA LLEGAR A ENTENDERSE. (1964) 1 exemplar

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10 Short Plays (1963) — Bidragsgivare — 62 exemplar
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The Night of the Iguana [1964 film] (1961) — Original play — 50 exemplar
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The Weird Fiction Megapack: 25 Stories from Weird Tales (2014) — Bidragsgivare — 24 exemplar
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The Best American Short Stories 1973 (1973) — Bidragsgivare — 23 exemplar
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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
The Glass Menagerie [1987 film] (1988) — Original Story — 10 exemplar
One Act Plays for Our Times (1973) — Bidragsgivare — 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
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof [1984 TV movie] (1984) — Original story — 4 exemplar
Laurence Olivier Presents [TV series] (2006) — original play — 4 exemplar
Weird Tales Volume 12 Number 2, August 1928 — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
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Verk
319
Även av
96
Medlemmar
28,001
Popularitet
#723
Betyg
3.8
Recensioner
305
ISBN
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Språk
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