num_pages: 96
description: Harold Bloom's introduction suggests Tennessee Williams is the most literary of American dramatists. Examine The Glass Menagerie with some of the best criticism written about it, including Catastrophe without Violence, The Southern Gentlewoman, and Celebration of a Certain Courage. The title, Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, part of Chelsea House Publishers' Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Tennessee Williams, a chronology of the author's life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
language: English
title: The Glass Menagerie
titlecomplete: The Glass Menagerie
characters: Tom Wingfield, Laura Wingfield, Amanda Wingfield, Jim O'Connor
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, American, Drama, School, Literature, Read For School, Classics, High School
ratings_count: 130509
places: St. Louis, Missouri, The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: -788893200000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best American Play
publisher: Penguin Group USA