The Glass Menagerie
of Tennessee Williams, Robert Bray (Introduction)
Description
No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. As Williams's first popular success, it 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, Menagaerie 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. The Glass Menagerie (in the reading text the author preferred) is now available only in its New Directions Paperbook edition. A new introduction by the editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, Robert Bray, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. This edition of The Glass Menagerie 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." (back cover)
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 104 pages
- Publisher New Directions
- Publication Date 06/17/99
- First Publication 10/28/45
- Language English
- ISBN 9780811214049
- Edition Reset Edition
- Category Other
- Scenario ['United States of America', 'St. Louis, Missouri (United States)']
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