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A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Student Editions
A Streetcar Named Desire shows a turbulent confrontation between traditional values in the American South - an old-world graciousness and beauty running decoratively to seed - set against the rough-edged, aggressive materialism of the new world. Through the vividly characterised figures of Southern bell ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire (Methuen Student Editions) by Tennessee Williams; Bess Rowen (Volume Editor)
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Student Editions Ser.
A revised student edition of Tennessee Williams's classic play, A Streetcar Named Desire. This revised Student Edition includes an introduction by Bess Rowen, Visiting Assistant Professor at Villanova University, US, which looks in particular at the play's treatment of rape, vulnerable people, mental in ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Series | Reading Level: very good
Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eve ...Show more
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sexuality repressed in the agony of her h ...Show more
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A Southern family meet to celebrate 'Big Daddy' Pollit's birthday- Gooper with his wife and children, his brother Brick - an ageing, broken football star - and his wife Maggie. But as the party unfolds the facade of a happy family gathering is fractured by sexual frustration, repressed love, and greed i ...Show more
Collected Stories Of Tenessee Williams by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
"Disturbing, moving, and funny; these stories help amplify Williams' tragic vision, for like the plays, they underline his preoccupation and insight into the conflicts of the human heart". ("New York Times"). Acclaimed as one of America's most successful playwrights, Tennessee Williams also published fo ...Show more
Orpheus Descending: and, Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Orpheus Descending is a love story, a plea for spiritual and artistic freedom, as well as a portrait of racism and intolerance. When charismatic drifter Valentine Xavier arrives in a Mississippi Delta town with his guitar and snakeskin jacket, he becomes a trigger for hatred and a magnet for three outca ...Show more
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura ...Show more
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