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This set collects all of Williams's plays, including the recently rediscovered early efforts Spring Storm and Not About Nightingales up through his most famous works and later lesser-known dramas. These magnificent titles are essential for all academic and public libraries.
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Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), one of the 20th century's most superb writers, was also one of its most successful and prolific. His classic works include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Summer and Smoke, Camino Real, Sweet Bird of Youth, Night of the Iguana, Orpheus Descending, and The Rose Tattoo.
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The Lyrical Voice of Tennessee Williams,
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This review is from: Tennessee Williams: Plays 1957-1980 (Library of America) (Hardcover)
Tennessee Williams represented a major advance in American drama as he introduced a lyricism that had previously been missing. Eugene O'Neill helped the American theatre grow up, but Williams was the one who made it sing.
Williams was able to create complex, vibrant plays which gave intense life to all of the contradictions, nastiness, dysfunction and beauty of American life and families. America has never produced a more honest or sincere playwright. His characters are always searching for ways to hang on to their humanity as the forces of repression and authoritarianism threaten to swallow them up or destroy them. But above all else, Williams' dialogue is superbly, sublimely poetic. For Williams, the drama is in language itself, and no one has ever used words to greater effect than Tennessee Williams. Both Library of America volumes of Williams' plays are essential reading for people interested in theatre, America, and/or the possibilities of hope and grace in turbulent times.
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This review is from: Tennessee Williams: Plays 1957-1980 (Library of America) (Hardcover)
Contains many of TW's later and more abstract works. The book is bound well, containing a ribbon placeholder. A must have for aspiring theater majors.
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Lyricism, tenderness, reality and fantasy in his stories...,
By Chas in Melrose,MA "Chas H. Penney" (Melrose, MA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tennessee Williams: Plays 1957-1980 (Library of America) (Hardcover)
All of Tennessee William's writings, whether his plays, poetry, or his short stories are lyrical in his use of imagery,irony, humor,and all ways uplifting. His works all go to the heart of the "human condition"....love, not finding love, losing love, but as an actual and central reason for Life!
He has a great affection for all of his characters from Blanche DuBois to Maxine, to Alma, to Maggie 'the Cat". His male characters seem to be drawn more to everyday types, though ones who are searching, or tortured by love. Tennessee is a national treasure, his "way with words" unparalleled, and truly THE only great American playright. Just a suggestion....there is another review posted here on this book by some person from Utah. Even though this person claims he read the book, if he did, he just did NOT get any of Tennessee's stories or plays at all. DO NOT GIVE THE "UTAH" REVIEW OF THE WORKS OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS ANY CREDENCE. If you have nothing else yet written by Williams, this is a great place to start. Also highly recommend his collection of Short Stories, as well as his collection of Poetry.
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- Red Rover by James Fenimore Cooper in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Kate Chopin: Complete Novels and Stories: At Fault / Bayou Folk / A Night in Acadie / The Awakening / Uncollected Stories (Library of America) by Kate Chopin in Back Matter
- Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth (Library of America #133) by Sinclair Lewis in Back Matter
- Tennessee Williams: Plays 1937-1955 (Library of America) by Tennessee Williams in Back Matter
- The Teachers & Writers Guide to Classic American Literature by Gary Lenhart in Back Matter
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