The Glass Menagerie

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The Glass Menagerie

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SKU: 9780811214049

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by Tennessee Williams

Williams’s first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the world. (in the reading text the author preferred) is now available only in its New Directions Paperbook edition. A new introduction by prominent Williams scholar Robert Bray, editor of , reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award: “More than fifty years after telling his story of a family whose lives form a triangle of quiet desperation, Williams’s mellifluous voice still resonates deeply and universally.” This edition of also includes Williams’s essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, “The Catastrophe of Success,” as well as a short section of Williams’s own “Production Notes.” The cover features the classic line drawing by Alvin Lustig, originally done for the 1949 New Directions edition. No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams’s . The revolutionary newness of . . . was in its poetic lift, but an underlying hard dramatic structure was what earned the play its right to sing poetically. With the advent of . . . Tennessee Williams emerged as a poet-playwright and a unique new force in theatre throughout the world.

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Dimensions 1 × 5 × 8 in