Name: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams By Brenda Murphy (University of Connecticut, USA)
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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams by Brenda Murphy (University of Connecticut, USA)

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Perfect for students of English Literature, Theatre Studies and American Studies at college and university, The Theatre of Tennessee Williams provides a lucid and stimulating analysis of Willams' dramatic work by one of America's leading scholars. With the centennial of his birth celebrated amid a flurry of conferences devoted to his work in 2011, and his plays a central part of any literature and drama curriculum and uibiquitous in theatre repertoires, he remains a giant of twentieth century literature and drama. In Brenda Murphy's major study of his work she examines his life and career and provides an analysis of more than a score of his key plays, including in-depth studies of major works such as A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and others. She traces the artist figure who features in many of Williams' plays to broaden the discussion beyond the normal reference points. As with other volumes in Methuen Drama's Critical Companions series, this book features too essays by Bruce McConachie, John S. Bak, Felicia Hardison Londre and Annette Saddik, offering perspectives on different aspects of Williams' work that will assist students in their own critical thinking.

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[Murphy] brings together ... useful information from Williams' work, writings and correspondence to make this a valuable academic work for anyone studying the playwright or American theatre ... A useful and well-written work -- David Chadderton * British Theatre Guide *
Brenda Murphy's The Theatre of Tennessee Williams is a thoroughly enjoyable read. The book describes the genesis and major themes of all of Williams's best-known plays and many of those that are less familiar; it provides, as well, an illuminating account of the plays' first productions and the ways in which they were inflected by their cultural contexts. Murphy writes with lucidity and an eye for the engaging detail, the telling quotation that will appeal to a broad audience. Her book serves as both a useful guide to Williams's work and an important contribution to the ongoing re-evaluation of that work -- Verna A. Foster, Loyola University * Modern Drama *

About Brenda Murphy (University of Connecticut, USA)

Brenda Murphy is the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, USA. Besides her many books and articles on American theatre, she is the editor of the Student Edition of After the Fall by Arthur Miller (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2011).

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1 The 1930s Plays: The Magic Tower, Candles to the Sun, Fugitive Kind, Not About Nightingales, Spring Storm, Stairs to the Roof 2 Battle of Angels and Orpheus Descending 3 The Glass Menagerie 4 Summer and Smoke and Eccentricities of a Nightingale 5 A Streetcar Named Desire 6 Camino Real 7 Cat on Hot Tin Roof 8 Suddenly Last Summer and Sweet Bird of Youth 9 The Night of the Iguana 10 The Later Plays, 1961-1983: The Two-Character Play/Outcry, The Gnadiges Fraulein, Clothes for a Summer Hotel, The Mutilated, Small Craft Warnings, Vieux Carre, Something Cloudy, Something Clear 11. Critical Perspectives All in the timing: the meanings of Streetcar in 1947 and 1951 by Bruce McConachie (University of Pittsburgh, USA) A broken romance: Tennessee Williams and America's mid-century theatre culture by John S. Bak (Universite de Lorraine, France) 'A vast traumatic eye': culture absorbed and refigured in Tennessee Williams's transitional plays by Felicia Hardison Londre (University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA) 'There's something not natural here': grotesque ambiguities in Kingdom of Earth, A Cavalier for Milady, and A House Not Meant to Stand by Annette Saddik (City University of New York, USA) Chronology Further reading Index Notes on contributors

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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams by Brenda Murphy (University of Connecticut, USA)

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Brenda Murphy (University of Connecticut, USA)

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2014-01-16

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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Brenda Murphy (University of Connecticut, USA)

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams by Brenda Murphy (University of Connecticut, USA)

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