Orpheus Descending And Suddenly Last Summer

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811225321
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of Tennessee Williams's most revered dramas in a single paperback edition for the first time. Orpheus Descending is a love story, a plea for spiritual and artistic freedom, as well as a portrait of racism and intolerance. When charismatic drifter Valentine Xavier arrives in a Mississippi Delta town with his guitar and snakeskin jacket, he becomes a trigger for hatred and a magnet for three outcast souls: storekeeper Lady Torrance, “lewd vagrant” Carol Cutrere, and religious visionary Vee Talbot. Suddenly Last Summer, described by its author as a “short morality play,” has become one of his most notorious works due in no small part to the film version starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift that shocked audiences in 1959. A menacing tale of madness, jealousy, and denial,the horrors in Suddenly Last Summer build to a heart-stopping conclusion. With perceptive new introductions by playwright Martin Sherman — he reframes Orpheus Descending in a political context and explores the psychology and sensationalism surrounding Suddenly Last Summer — this volume also offers Williams’s related essay, “The Past, the Present, and the Perhaps,” and a chronology of the playwright’s life and works.

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Signet
ISBN 13 : 9780451525123
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Plays written by Tennessee Williams and published by Signet. This book was released on 1976 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology contains four of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's most brilliant works: Summer and Smoke, Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer and Period of Adjustment. "The innocent and the damned, the lonely and the frustrated, the hopeful and the hopeless . . . (Williams) brings them all into focus with an earthy, irreverently comic passion".--Newsweek.

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Signet
ISBN 13 : 9780451509802
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Plays written by Tennessee Williams and published by Signet. This book was released on 1976-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822210948
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suddenly Last Summer written by Tennessee Williams and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1986 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Kerr, in the NY Herald-Tribune, describes: This, says Mr. Williams through the most sympathetic voice among his characters, 'is a true story about the time and the world we live in.' He has made it seem true--or at least curiously and su

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822208655
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orpheus Descending written by Tennessee Williams and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1983 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As The New York Times describes, The play tells of a woman storekeeper and a handsome, guileless youth who comes in off the highway. A guitar-player, he is a rural Orpheus who descends to rescue his love--not in Hades, precisely,

Author : Matthew C. Roudané
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521498838
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams written by Matthew C. Roudané and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of thirteen original essays from a team of leading scholars in the field. In this wide-ranging volume, the contributors cover a healthy sampling of Williams's works, from the early apprenticeship years in the 1930s through to his last play before his death in 1983, Something Cloudy, Something Clear. In addition to essays on such major plays as The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, among others, the contributors also consider selected minor plays, short stories, poems, and biographical concerns. The Companion also features a chapter on selected key productions as well as a bibliographic essay surveying the major critical statements on Williams.

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Signet
ISBN 13 : 9780451518576
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tennessee Williams, Four Plays written by Tennessee Williams and published by Signet. This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated playwright Williams brings alive the nature of love, hate, comedy, tragedy, joy, sorrow, and passion in four well-known works.

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Signet
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Plays: Summer and Smoke, Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer, Period of Adjustment written by Tennessee Williams and published by Signet. This book was released on 1976 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811211963
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Tennessee Williams written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1971 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suddenly Last Summer written by Tennessee Williams and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the text of a 1958 play in which a young woman who has been in a mental institution since witnessing the horrible death of her cousin, is harassed by her relatives who all have their own reasons for wanting her to change her story.