LEADER 05295nam 2200661 450 001 9910477183603321 005 20170816150224.0 010 $a1-4081-4532-4 010 $a1-4081-4533-2 035 $a(CKB)2670000000493109 035 $a(EBL)1561334 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001192874 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11664598 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001192874 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11229503 035 $a(PQKB)10467347 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1561334 035 $a(ScCtBLL)9a47e0f3-7d4e-4321-8d41-3714f909775e 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27929 035 $a(PPN)23235345X 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000493109 100 $a20131114d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe theatre of Tennessee Williams /$fBrenda Murphy 210 $cBloomsbury Academic$d2014 210 1$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 225 1 $aCritical companions 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-78093-025-9 311 $a1-4081-4543-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTitle Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; A Note on Texts; Chapter 1 The 1930s' Plays (1936-1940); Williams in the Thirties; A Literary Bohemia: The Magic Tower; "Group consciousness": Candles to the Sun; "The Sensitive non-conformist individual": Fugitive Kind; The Lure of Escape: Not About Nightingales; Sexual Confusion: Spring Storm; An Escape for the Wild of Heart: Stairs to the Roof; Chapter 2 Battle of Angels and Orpheus Descending (1939-1941 and 1957); "The sensitive, non-conformist individual": Battle of Angels 327 $aThe Artist in Hell: Orpheus DescendingChapter 3 The Glass Menagerie (1942-1945); Chapter 4 Summer and Smoke and Eccentricities of a Nightingale (1945-1948 and 1964); Emotional Paralysis: Summer and Smoke; "The different and odd and lonely": Eccentricities of a Nightingale; Chapter 5 A Streetcar Named Desire (1945-1947); Chapter 6 The Rose Tattoo and Camino Real (1951 and 1946-1953); Modern Fabliau: The Rose Tattoo; Romantics in the Real World: Camino Real; Chapter 7 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1951-1955); Chapter 8 Suddenly Last Summer and Sweet Bird of Youth (1953-1959) 327 $a"This hideous story": Suddenly Last Summer"The enemy, time": Sweet Bird of Youth; Chapter 9 The Night of the Iguana (1940-1948 and 1959-1961); Chapter 10 The Later Plays (1961-1983); "Stoned Age"; The Artist Plays; Grotesque Metaphor: The Gna?diges Fra?ulein; "Ghost play": Clothes for a Summer Hotel; Bohemians and Misfits; "The wayward and deformed": The Mutilated; Fragile Community: Small Craft Warnings; Memory; From Innocence to Experience: Vieux Carre?; "Double exposure": Something Cloudy, Something Clear; Critical Perspectives; All in the Timing: The Meanings of Streetcar in 1947 and 1951 327 $aTwo Streetcars in Evolutionary PerspectiveStreetcar in a Changing American Culture; Dynamic Processing in 1947 and 1951; Conclusion; A Broken Romance: Tennessee Williams and America's Mid-Century Theatre Culture; "Stupidity is no longer profitable": Williams and his Critics, 1937-1948; "A radical departure": Williams and his Critics, 1951-1958; "A butterfly to a cannon": Williams and his Critics, 1959 and Beyond; "Assassins, before, now, and after": Conclusion; "A Vast Traumatic Eye": Culture Absorbed and Refigured in Tennessee Williams's Transitional Plays 327 $a"There's something not natural here": Grotesque Ambiguities in Tennessee Williams's Kingdom of Earth, A Cavalier for Milady, and A House Not Meant to StandConclusion; Notes; Critical Perspectives; Chronology; Further Reading; Works by Tennessee Williams; Unpublished Manuscripts; Biographies, Interviews, Documentaries, and Memoirs; Bibliographies and Reference Works; Reviews and Criticism of Individual Plays; Other Williams Criticism; Other Works Cited; Notes On Contributors; Index 330 $aPerfect for students of English Literature, Theatre Studies and American Studies at college and university, The Theatre of Tennessee Williams provides a lucid and stimulating analysis of Willams'' dramatic work by one of America''s leading scholars. With the centennial of his birth celebrated amid a flurry of conferences devoted to his work in 2011, and his plays a central part of any literature and drama curriculum and uibiquitous in theatre repertoires, he remains a giant of twentieth century literature and drama. In Brenda Murphy''s major study of his work she examines his life and career 410 0$aCritical companions (Methuen Drama) 606 $aAmerican drama$y20th century 610 $aLiterary Criticism 610 $aDrama 615 0$aAmerican drama 676 $a812.54 700 $aMurphy$b Brenda$f1950-$0155354 701 $aLonergan$b Patrick$0770142 701 $aHurley$b Erin$f1969-$01243901 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910477183603321 996 $aThe theatre of Tennessee Williams$92885262 997 $aUNINA