The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie
The Only Single Edition Now Available Of This American Classic About A Mother Obsessed With Her Disabled Daughter. Introduction / Robert Bray -- Cast Listing/scene -- The Characters -- Production Notes -- The Glass Menagerie -- The Catastrophe Of Success, An Essay / Tennessee Williams. By Tennessee Williams ; Introduction By Robert Bray.
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions
Published Year : 1999-06-17T00:00:01Z
Edition : Reprint
Format : print - Paperback, 104 pages
Subject : Young men, Young men--Missouri--Saint Louis--Drama, Families, Families--Missouri--Saint Louis--Drama, Young men--Drama, Saint Louis (Mo.)--Drama, PS3545.I5365 G5 1999, 812/.54
Language : en_US
Dimensions : Height: 8.0999838 Inches, Length: 5.0999898 Inches, Weight: 0.3 Pounds, Width: 0.3999992 Inches
ISBN : 0811214044
ISBN13 : 9780811214049
Overview :
No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie.
Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and 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, the play 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 prominent Williams scholar Robert Bray, editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award: "More than fifty years after telling his story of a family whose lives form a triangle of quiet desperation, Williams's mellifluous voice still resonates deeply and universally." 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." The cover features the classic line drawing by Alvin Lustig, originally done for the 1949 New Directions edition.