Sweet Bird of Youth / A Streetcar Named Desire / The Glass Menagerie
By: Tennessee Williams ; edited by E. Martin Browne
Contributors: Browne, E. Martin (Elliott Martin), 1900-1980
Edition: Reprint
Series: Penguin Plays
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780140480153
Copyright date: 1959
Subjects: Play; Plays; American drama
Description: Writing in 1959, at about the time Elia Kazan directed Sweet Bird of Youth on Broadway, Tennessee Williams described his first successful play as being "about as violent as you can get on the stage. During the 19 years since then I have only produced five plays that are not violent". First among them The Glass Menagerie, the memory play which was first presented in London in 1948 and in which he employed every device of scenery, lighting, and music to evoke nostalgia. The following year, he scored one of his biggest successes with A Streetcar named Desire, in which a woman's pathetic fantasies of primness and respectability are stripped down and violently exposed in New Orleans.
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Notes: Sweet bird of youth originally published: New York : New Directions, 1959. - A streetcar named desire originally published: New York : New Directions, 1947. - The glass menagerie originally published: New York : Random House, 1945.
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Table of contents: title: The glass menagerie; title: A streetcar named Desire; title: Sweet bird of youth