Not About Nightingales by Tennessee Williams

Not About Nightingales by Tennessee Williams

Not About Nightingales is remarkable both as the work of an unknown twenty-seven-year-old and as a first play to carry the signature Tennessee Williams. The subject matter is a prison scandal which shocked the nation in the mid-thirties when convicts leading a hunger strike in prison were locked in a steam-heated cell and roasted to death. I have never written anything since that could compete with it in violence and horror,Williams said later about the full-length play he developed in 1938. It shows us the young Williams as a political writer in Depression America; its flashes of lyricism and compelling dialogue presage the great plays Williams was later to write.

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) was America’s most influential playwright. Readers have devoured his poetry, essays, short stories, and letters, as well as his fantastic late plays, his remarkable corpus of one-acts, and his greatest plays—The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Night of the Iguana, The Rose Tattoo, Suddenly Last Summer, and Camino Real. Williams is a cornerstone of New Directions—we publish everything he wrote. He is also our single bestselling author.

SKU	Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13	9780811213806
ISBN 10	0811213803
Titel	Not About Nightingales
Autor	Tennessee Williams
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Erscheinungsjahr	1998-03-17
Seitenanzahl	196
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.