Magical Muse: Millennial Essays on Tennessee Williams, Ralph F. Voss

Название: Law and Sexuality in Tennessee Williams S America
ISBN: 1611478936 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611478938
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Описание: Gender and cultural studies readings of Tennessee Williams's work have provided diverse perspectives on his complex representations of sexuality, whether of himself as an openly gay man, or of his characters, many of whom narrate or dramatize sexual attitudes or behavior that cross heteronormative boundaries of the mid-century period. Several of these studies have positioned Williams and his work amid the public tensions in American life over roughly four decades, from 1940-1980, as notions of equality and freedom of choice challenged prejudice and repression in law and in society. To date, however, neither Williams's homosexuality nor his persistent representations of sexual transgressions have been examined as legal matters that challenged the rule of law. Directed by legal history and informed by multiple strands of Williams's studies criticism, textual, and cultural, this book explores the interplay of select topics defined and debated in law's texts with those same topics in Williams's personal and imaginative texts. By tracing the obscure and the transparent representations of homosexuality, specifically, and diverse sexualities more generally, through selected stories and plays, the book charts the intersections between Williams's literature and the laws that governed the period. His imaginative works, backlit by his personal documents and historical and legal records from the period, underscore his preoccupation with depictions of diverse sexualities throughout his career. His use of legal language and its varied effects on his texts demonstrate his work's multiple and complex intersection with major twentieth-century concerns, including significant legal and cultural dialogues about identity formation, intimacy, privacy, and difference.

Автор: Hooper
Название: Sexual Politics in the Work of Tennessee Williams
ISBN: 1107533007 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107533004
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Описание: Hooper questions the now fashionable view that Williams was fundamentally a social writer passionately concerned about the state of twentieth-century America. Through detailed analysis of both canonical and recently discovered texts, this book indicates instead how Williams` work prioritises sexual power and the experience of the individual over party politics.

Автор: Brenda Murphy
Название: Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan
ISBN: 0521035244 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521035248
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Описание: This is a book-length study of the collaboration between Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan, an intense creative relationship that lasted from 1947 to 1960 and embraced among others, the production of A Streetcar Named Desire.

Автор: Saddik
Название: Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess
ISBN: 1107076684 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107076686
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Описание: Saddik explores Williams` later plays (1961-82) in the context of what she terms a `theatre of excess`, which seeks liberation through exaggeration, chaos, ambiguity, and laughter. Grounding the plays in the carnivalesque, the grotesque, and psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer theory, Saddik analyzes recent productions that successfully captured the playwright`s late aesthetic.

Автор: Clericuzio
Название: Tennessee Williams and Italy
ISBN: 3319319264 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319319261
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Описание: This book reveals for the first time the import of a huge network of connections between Tennessee Williams and the country closest to his heart, Italy.America's most thought-provoking playwright loved Italy more than any other country outside the US and was deeply influenced by its culture for most of his life. Anna Magnani's film roles in the 1940s, Italian Neo-realist cinema, the theatre of Eduardo De Filippo, as well as the actual experience of Italian life and culture during his long stays in the country were some of the elements shaping his literary output. Through his lover Frank Merlo, he also had first-hand knowledge of Italian-American life in Brooklyn.Tracing the establishment of his reputation with the Italian intelligentsia, as well as with theatre practitioners and with generations of audiences, the book also tells the story of a momentous collaboration in the theatre, between Williams and Luchino Visconti, who had to defy the unceasing control Italian censorship exerted on Williams for decades.

Автор: Gindt Dirk
Название: Tennessee Williams in Sweden and France, 1945-1965
ISBN: 1350022071 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350022072
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: The immediate post-war period marks a pivotal moment in the internationalization of American theatre when Tennessee Williams’ plays became some of Broadway’s most critically acclaimed and financially lucrative exports. Dirk Gindt offers a detailed study of the production and reception of Williams’ work on Swedish and French stages at the height of his popularity between 1945 and 1965. Analysing the national openings of seminal plays, including The Glass Menagerie , A Streetcar Named Desire , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer, Gindt provides rich and nuanced insights into Williams’ transnational impact. In the process, he charts a network of fascinating and influential directors, actors, designers, producers and critics, all of whom left distinctive marks on mid-twentieth-century European theatre and culture. Gindt further demonstrates how Williams’ work foregrounded cultural apprehensions, racial fantasies and sexual anxieties, which resulted in heated debates in the critical and popular media.

Автор: Brenda Murphy
Название: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
ISBN: 1780930259 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780930251
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams provides a stimulating analysis of the work of this giant of twentieth century American theatre whose work remains central to curriculums and theatre repertoires. It combines an analysis of all of his work by American scholar Brenda Murphy with interviews and a number of criticial essays.

Автор: Murphy, Brenda
Название: Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan : A Collaboration in the Theatre
ISBN: 0521400953 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521400954
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Описание: This is a book-length study of the collaboration between Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan, an intense creative relationship that lasted from 1947 to 1960 and embraced among others, the production of A Streetcar Named Desire.

Автор: Stephen Bottoms, Philip Kolin, Michael Hooper
Название: A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Sweet Bird of Youth
ISBN: 147252182X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472521828
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Описание: A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams provides the essential guide to Williams' most studied and revived dramas. Authored by a team of leading scholars, it offers students a clear analysis and detailed commentary on four of Williams' plays: The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth. A consistent framework of analysis ensures that whether readers are wanting a summary of the play, a commentary on the themes or characters, or a discussion of the work in performance, they can readily find what they need to develop their understanding and aid their appreciation of Williams' artistry.

A chronology of the writer's life and work helps to situate all his works in context and the introduction reinforces this by providing a clear overview of Williams' writing, its recurrent themes and concerns and how these are intertwined with his life and times. For each play the author provides a summary of the plot, followed by commentary on:
* The context
* Themes
* Characters
* Structure and language
* The play in production (both on stage and screen adaptations)
Questions for study, and notes on words and phrases in the text are also supplied to aid the reader.

The wealth of authoritative and clear commentary on each play, together with further questions that encourage comparison across Williams' work and related plays by other leading writers, ensures that this is the clearest and fullest guide to Williams' greatest pla

Название: Cambridge companion to Tennessee Williams
ISBN: 052149883X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521498838
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Описание: This wide-ranging volume covers Williams`s works, from the early apprenticeship years through to his last play before his death in 1983. In addition to essays on the plays, the contributors also consider selected short stories, poems, and biographical concerns and a bibliographic chapter surveys the major critical statements on Williams.

Автор: Saddik
Название: Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess
ISBN: 1107433908 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107433908
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Описание: Saddik explores Williams` later plays (1961-82) in the context of what she terms a `theatre of excess`, which seeks liberation through exaggeration, chaos, ambiguity, and laughter. Grounding the plays in the carnivalesque, the grotesque, and psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer theory, Saddik analyzes recent productions that successfully captured the playwright`s late aesthetic.