Tennessee Williams
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Menagerie was Williams' first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our preeminent 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 it is studied and performed in classrooms and theaters around the world. A new introduction by prominent Williams...
Author
Series
Signets Belles lettres volume AE6778
Language
English
Formats
Description
Caedmon is proud to release this archival full-cast recording of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire on cd for the first time! Blanche DuBois arrives at her sister Stella's New Orleans apartment seeking refuge from a troubled past-but her ethereal spirit irks Stella's husband, the loutish Stanley Kowalski. Crudely, relentlessly, he unmasks the lies and delusions that sustain Blanche, until her frail hold on reality is shockingly severed....
3) Memoirs
Author
Pub. Date
1975
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 264 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the media-though long self-identified as a gay man, Williams's candor about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself. As it turns out, Williams's look back at his life is not quite so scandalous as it once seemed; he recalls his childhood in Mississippi and St. Louis, his prolonged struggle as a "starving artist," the "overnight"...
Language
English
Description
Set in the French Quarter of New Orleans during the restless years following WWII, this is a story of Blanche DuBois, a fragile and neurotic woman on a desperate prowl for someplace in the world to call her own. An uncensored version of the story of a repressed widow who visits her sister in New Orleans and is raped and driven mad by her brother-in-law.
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1143
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xvi, 313 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
12) Selected plays
Author
Publisher
Franklin Library
Pub. Date
1977
Physical Desc
665 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
19) The rose tattoo
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Serafina is a Sicilian woman who now lives in the American South. She is mourning the death of her beloved husband, constantly telling herself stories of their time together. Her fragile, emotional existence is shattered when she discovers that her husband had been having an affair. Luckily, Serafina meets truck driver Alvaro and their tentative romance may help her through this troubling time.
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money whereby he sets about discovering everything else...