Orpheus Descending
Title | Orpheus Descending PDF eBook |
Author | Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | New Directions Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780811219396 |
Two of Tennessee Williams's most revered dramas in a single paperback edition for the first time.
Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer
Title | Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer PDF eBook |
Author | Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2012-12-11 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0811225321 |
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.
Suddenly Last Summer
Title | Suddenly Last Summer PDF eBook |
Author | Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | Dramatists Play Service Inc |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780822210948 |
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
Orpheus Descending
Title | Orpheus Descending PDF eBook |
Author | Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | |
Pages | 187 |
Release | 1961 |
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The theatre of Tennessee Williams
Title | The theatre of Tennessee Williams PDF eBook |
Author | Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | |
Pages | 423 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780811205931 |
Four Plays
Title | Four Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | Signet |
Pages | 491 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | American drama |
ISBN | 9780451525123 |
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.
Four Plays: Summer and Smoke, Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer, Period of Adjustment
Title | Four Plays: Summer and Smoke, Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer, Period of Adjustment PDF eBook |
Author | Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | Signet |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Drama |
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