By Tennessee Williams (author) Part of the Methuen Drama Student Editions series
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This revised Student Edition includes an introduction by Daniel Ciba, which looks in particular at the play as a piece of realism or experimentalism and considers the play through the lens of Queer Identity.
The introduction includes discussion of very recent revivals and adaptations of the play across the world.
The Glass Menagerie , Tennessee Williams' first great popular success and an autobiographical play about his mother and sister, launched the brilliant and controversial career of this ground-breaking American playwright. Set in St Louis during the depression era of the 1930s, it is the poignant drama of a family's gradual disintegration, under pressure both from outside and within.
Methuen Drama Student Editions are expertly annotated texts of a wide range of plays from the modern and classic repertoires. As well as the complete text of the play itself, this volume contains:
· A chronology of the play and the playwright’s life and work
· an introductory discussion of the social, political, cultural and economic context in which the play was originally conceived and created
· a succinct overview of the creation processes followed and subsequent performance history of the piece
· an analysis of, and commentary on, some of the major themes and specific issues addressed by the text
· a bibliography of suggested primary and secondary materials for further study.
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One of Tennessee Williams's most beautiful, haunting and generous plays. - The Sunday Times
The most touching, tender and painful of his works. - The Daily Telegraph
Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier Williams; 1911-83) was a US playwright, whose controversial plays dealt with themes of repressed sexuality and family conflict. Williams was the most popular playwright in America between 1945 and 1960, winning the Pulitzer Prize twice and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award four times.
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This revised Student Edition includes an introduction by Daniel Ciba, which looks in particular at the play as a piece of realism or experimentalism and considers the play through the lens of Queer Identity. The introduction includes discussion of very recent revivals and adaptations of the play across the world.
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The Glass Menagerie was written by Tennessee Williams and published by Methuen Drama an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The Glass Menagerie has 136 pages
Yes it is part of Methuen Drama Student Editions series
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