The Selected Letters Of Tennessee Williams
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The Selected Letters Of Tennessee Williams
Volume I ofThe Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams ends with the unexpected triumph ofThe Glass Menagerie. Volume II extends the correspondence from 1946 to 1957, a time of intense creativity which saw the production ofA Streetcar Named Desire, The Rose Tattoo, Camino Real, andCat on a Hot Tin Roof. Following the immense success of Streetcar, Williams struggles to retain his prominence with a prodigious outpouring of stories, poetry, and novels as well as plays. Several major film projects, including the notoriousBaby Doll, bring Williams and his collaborator Elia Kazan into conflict with powerful agencies of censorship, exposing both the conservative landscape of the 1950s and Williams' own studied resistance to the forces of conformity. Letters written to Kazan, Carson McCullers, Gore Vidal, publisher James Laughlin, and Audrey Wood, Williams' resourceful agent, continue earlier lines of correspondence and introduce new celebrity figures. The Broadway and Hollywood successes in the evolving career of America's premier dramatist vie with a string of personal losses and a deepening depression to make this period an emotional and artistic rollercoaster for Tennessee.Compiled by leading Williams scholars Albert J. Devlin, Professor of English at the University of Missouri, and Nancy M. Tischler, Professor Emerita of English at the Pennsylvania State University, Volume II maintains the exacting standard of Volume I, called byChoice: a volume that will prove indispensable to all serious students of this author...meticulous annotations greatly increase the value of this gathering.
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Doctor Faustus
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Doctor Faustus
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?
Dr. Faustus famously asks of Helen of Troy when he conjures her at the suggestion of his students in this major work, written in 1588. A master scholar, Faust, dissatisfied by the limitations of book learning, seeks higher knowledge through black magic, which leads to a private audience with
Mephostophilis, Satan`s courier. Faust agrees to sell his soul to the devil in return for 24 years of Mephostophilis`s bidding. With the dark compact sealed, the play presents the conflict
between Renaissance man`s drive for knowledge and God`s ultimate mystery. There is a long textual history of the character Faustus in literature, manifesting in particular as source material for Marlowe in a 1587 Frankfurt piece which describes an apparently actual Dr. Faustus, practitioner of the blackest arts.
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What Happens in Hamlet
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What Happens in Hamlet
A scholarly examination of the plot and dramatic technique of Shakespeare's most controversial play
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The Winter's Tale
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The Winter's Tale
The Winter's Tale was one of the very last plays Shakespeare wrote, a moving romance whose themes are sin, forgiveness, death, rebirth, and the power of Time and Nature to heal all wounds. Based on a novella by Shakespeare's enemy and arch rival Robert Greene,The Winter's Tale introduces Perdita, perhaps the Bard's most richly symbolic character. At times tragic, at times humorous, but always entertaining and instructive,The Winters Tale is a complex and rewarding work by the greatest dramatist of all time.A Shakespeare Society Production. The complete play in four acts.
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The Book of Monologues for Aspiring Actors
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The Book of Monologues for Aspiring Actors
This book is a collection of cuttings from plays featuring young characters-adolescents to young adults. Playwrights range from Sophocles and Moliere to David Henry Hwang and Laura Harrington. Divided into monologues for females and monologues for males, the collection offers introductory notes on each dramatic scene and practical advice on preparing, analyzing, and staging the monologues for interpretation and performance.
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