num_pages: 104
description: No play in the modern theater has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. As Williams's first popular success, it launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career, of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, Menagaerie has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the world. The Glass Menagerie (in the reading text the author preferred) is now available only in its New Directions Paperbook edition. A new introduction by the editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, Robert Bray, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. This edition of The Glass Menagerie also includes Williams's essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, "The Catastrophe of Success," as well as a short section of Williams's own "Production Notes." (back cover)
language: English
title: The Glass Menagerie
titlecomplete: The Glass Menagerie
characters: Laura Wingfield, Tom Wingfield, Amanda Wingfield, Jim O'Connor
genres: Read For School, American, Theatre, School, Drama, Plays, Literature, High School, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 130504
places: The United States of America, St. Louis, Missouri
awards: awardedAt: -788893200000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best American Play
publisher: New Directions