Tennessee Williams Livres

Personnages pour "La chatte sur un toit brûlant": 4 femmes, 6 hommes, 5 enfants, figurants.

Le nom de Tennessee Williams est associé à d'inoubliables chefs-d'œuvre, tant au théâtre qu'au cinéma : Un tramway nommé désir, La Chatte sur un toit brûlant, Soudain l'été dernier, La Nuit de l'iguane, pour ne prendre que quelques exemples. Mais en deçà et au-delà de cette œuvre monumentale se trouve ce qui l'a sustentée et produite : la vie même de son auteur, nourrie d'échecs et de triomphes, d'expériences douloureuses, de rencontres avec d'autres mythes - Greta Garbo, Anna Magnani, Liz Taylor -, d'heures de travail acharné avec Kazan, Losey, Visconti. Écrivain et dramaturge brillant de son propre feu, Tennessee Williams, ici témoin terrible et merveilleux de lui-même, l'est aussi d'une époque si féconde que le temps, par-delà les générations, ne saurait l'effacer.

The book features a series of insightful interviews with the renowned playwright known for his impactful works such as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire, and The Glass Menagerie. These conversations delve into his creative process, the themes of his plays, and his reflections on the theater's role in society. Readers gain a deeper understanding of his artistic vision and the personal experiences that shaped his iconic characters and narratives.

With detailed analysis of the text, discussions on themes, historical backgrounds and author biographies, York Notes offers students the best insight into the world of English Literature.

Recreates the milieux Williams knew and chronicled so movingly--from his gypsy youth in St. Louis and New Orleans to his days of celebrity in Hollywood and New York.

This anthology contains four of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's most brilliant works: Summer and Smoke, Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer and Period of Adjustment. "The innocent and the damned, the lonely and the frustrated, the hopeful and the hopeless . . . (Williams) brings them all into focus with an earthy, irreverently comic passion".--Newsweek.

A collection of four plays from the master of twentieth-century American drama includes Orpheus Descending, in which a nomadic guitar player falls in love with a storekeeper's wife only to find his life plagued by violence when the townspeople turns against them. Original.

Few plays have explored the byways of the human heart as poignantly and poetically as Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. In this touching audio, we meet the embattled Wingfield family: Amanda—faded southern belle, abandoned wife, dominating mother, who hopes to match her daughter with an eligible "gentleman caller;" Laura—lame and painfully shy, she evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to a world of make-believe; Tom—sole support of the family, he eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura. Also included on this audio are priceless recordings of Tennessee Williams bringing his own interpretations to the wistful opening monologue and the tragic ending, as well as to his own brilliantly charming poetry and his uproariously wicked short story, The Yellow Bird.

Tennessee Williams' sensuous portrait of sexual repression is as sultry as the sweltering heat of its Mississippi setting. Alma Winemiller, the sheltered daughter of a minister, secretly harbors a lifelong love for the boy next door, Dr. John Buchanan. Alma seeks a spiritual love with just one man, but the rakish John is focused solely on sexual conquest. Their intense relationship degenerates into a battle for his body and her soul.

The collection features early writings by Thomas Lanier Williams, showcasing his distinctive voice before he gained fame as a playwright. Set against the backdrop of Missouri, these tales reveal the foundational elements of his storytelling style, offering a glimpse into the themes and character development that would later define his renowned works.

1. Cat on a hot roof: the play alludes to the presence of homosexuality in Southern society and examines the complicated rules of social conduct in this culture. 2. The milk train doesn't stop here anymore: geen homorelevantie. 3. The night of the Iguana: Edith Jelkes, an art teacher from Mississippi is travelling to recover from a breakdown. Needing sympathetic companionship, she makes friendly advances to two homosexual American writers and tries to enlist their aid in freeing a captive iguana

- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from "The Odyssey through modern literature- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index- Introductory essay by Harold Bloom

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. --back cover

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 husband, Brick Pollitt. In spite of the public controversy Cat stirred up, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics Circle Award for that year. Williams, as he so often did with his plays, rewrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for many years—the present version was originally produced at the American Shakespeare Festival in 1974 with all the changes that made Williams finally declare the text to be definitive, and was most recently produced on Broadway in the 2003–2004 season. This definitive edition also includes Williams&rsquoi; essay “Person-to-Person,” Williams’ notes on the various endings, and a short chronology of the author’s life. One of America’s greatest living playwrights, as well as a friend and colleague of Williams, Edward Albee has written a concise introduction to the play from a playwright’s perspective, examining the candor, sensuality, power, and impact of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof then and now.

Features Period of adjustement; Summer and Smoke; and Small Craft Warnings. Period of adjustement is about marital problems that surface at Christmas, in a comedy of human foibles and frustrations. Small Craft Warnings is set in a bar on the Californian coast, where a group of people grapple with existence and survival.

Tennessee William's Vieux Carre is not emotion recollected in tranquility but emotion re-created with all the pain, compassion, and wry humor of the playwright's own 1938 sojourn in the New Orleans French Quarter vividly in tact.

Lucy Bailey's adaptation brings a fresh perspective to Tennessee Williams' notorious screenplay, capturing the intense emotions and complex characters that define the original work. The narrative explores themes of desire, desperation, and the human condition, while maintaining the dramatic tension and lyrical dialogue characteristic of Williams' style. This interpretation invites audiences to experience the story anew, highlighting its timeless relevance and emotional depth.

THE STORY: Kerr, in the NY Herald-Tribune, describes: This, says Mr. Williams through the most sympathetic voice among his characters, 'is a true story about the time and the world we live in.' He has made it seem true--or at least curiously and su

Set in St. Louis during the Depression of the 1930s, this work is a personal account of the author's family and its gradual disintegration as it succumbed to external and internal pressures.

'One of the genre's very few genuinely comic, genuinely incisive writers' THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE

A beautiful clothbound edition of a beloved classic to celebrate the 100th birthday of America s greatest playwright, with a sweeping new introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner.

Includes three plays - Suddenly Last Summer, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, and Small Craft Warnings.

No play in the modern theater has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. As Williams's first popular success, it 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, Menagaerie 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 the editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, Robert Bray, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. 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." (back cover)

Mrs Stone changed from a famous, rich American actress to a notorious, very rich American widow. But the transition took years and all that time her youth and legendary beauty slipped away. Frantic, she decides to take a lover, a young and very handsome Italian, being prepared to invest in his body for good return.

Williams' play about drifter Chance Wayne who returns to his hometown with a faded movie star hoping to find the girl of his youth is a classic study of the dream of recapturing youth and finding fame. This edition features an extensive critical commentary and questions aimed at students of the play.

Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, 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, her daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories.

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams.

In this phantasmagorical play, the Camino Real is a dead end, a police state in a vaguely Latin American country, and an inescapable condition. Characters from history and literature―Don Quixote, Casanova, Camille, Lord Byron―inhabit a place where corruption and indifference have immobilized and nearly destroyed the human spirit. Then, into this netherworld, the archetypal Kilroy arrives―a sailor and all-American guy with “a heart as big as the head of baby.” Celebrated American playwright John Guare has written an illuminative Introduction for this edition. Also included are Williams’ original Foreword and Afterword to the play, the one-act play "Ten Blocks on the Camino Real," plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar Michael Paller.

In these three steamy, exotic dramas Tennessee Williams portrays loss, faded lives and passionate love affairs.

Tragédie ve třech dějstvích, jejíž symbolickou rovinu tvoří půdorys známého řeckého mýtu, prolínající se Williamsovým příběhem.

E.O´Neill: Ľadár prichádza, T. Wilder - Iba o vlások, T. Williams - Kráľovská cesta, A. Miller - Skúška ohňom

Tři divadelní hry amerického dramatika Tennesseeho Williamse: Tramvaj do stanice Touha (1947) — Kočka na rozpálené plechové střeše (1955) — Noc s leguánem (1961).

Nach dem Verlust ihres stolzen Familiensitzes flieht Blanche DuBois, eine verblichene Südstaatenschönheit, zu ihrer Schwester Stella, die mit dem Arbeiter Stanley Kowalski verheiratet ist. Dessen aggressive Sexualität stößt Blanche ab. Stanley hasst Blanches affektiertes Verhalten und ihre Traditionsversessenheit. In der Enge der Wohnung im französischen Viertel von New Orleans kommt es schnell zu Spannungen, die in einer Katastrophe münden … Marlon Brando wurde in der Rolle des Stanley Kowalski zu einer Ikone der amerikanischen Männlichkeit. Mit den Beiträgen zu beiden Werken aus Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Mit Daten zu Leben und Werk, exklusiv verfasst von der Redaktion der Zeitschrift für Literatur TEXT + KRITIK.

Dieser Band enthält die beiden Dramen, die den Namen von Tennessee Williams in der Welt berühmt gemacht haben: »Endstation Sehnsucht« und »Die Glasmenagerie«. New Orleans und St. Louis sind die Schauplätze; Exzesse der Sinnlichkeit und der Phantasie stehen in bösem Kontrast zu der drückenden Alltäglichkeit der Südstaatenszenerie. Die meisten Figuren dieses Autors sind labile Charaktere, anfällig für alle Formen der Zerstörung und Selbstzerstörung. Die verborgenen Sehnsüchte und Ängste seiner Zeitgenossen läßt Tennessee Williams wie kaum ein anderer Dramatiker Gestalt gewinnen.

Deutsch von Wolf Christian Schröder und Helmar Harald Fischer. Mit einem Nachwort von Helmar Harald Fischer

Povídky o lidech, kteří nedokáží zakotvit v současném chaotickém světě, žijí ve vlastním mikrokosmu a čas má pro ně klíčový význam.

Anläßlich »Big Daddys« Geburtstag trifft die gesamte Familie zusammen. Zeit, alte Familienstreitigkeiten wieder aufbrechen zu lassen, alte Haßgefühle zu aktivieren, aber auch Zeit, um sich endlich der Wahrheit zu stellen. Die Katze ist die sexgeladene Maggie, die mit ihrer Vitalität versucht, den Bannkreis von Heuchelei, Selbsttäuschung und verlogener Moral zu durchbrechen, um ihren Mann Brick und ihre Ehe zu retten und sich dabei selbst einer Lüge bedienen muß. ›Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach‹ brachte seinem Autor zum zweitenmal den Pulitzerpreis und Liz Taylor in der Filmrolle der Maggie Pollitt Weltruhm ein. Tennessee Williams' berühmtestes Theaterstück liegt nun in einer neuen Übersetzung von Jörn van Dyck vor. Der Band enthält jedoch nicht nur das für die Broadway-Uraufführung geschönte Ende der zweiten Fassung von Tennessee Williams, sondern auch das ursprüngliche Ende der Originalfassung.

V prostředí poživačného Říma rozvíjí příběh stárnoucí ženy, vdovy po americkém milionáři a někdejší herečky, která hnána sexem a touhou přesvědčit se, že dosud vzdoruje přicházejícímu stáří, se stane trapnou obětí římského gigola.

Šest povídek představuje Tennessee Williamse českému čtenáři především jako mistra lidské psychiky. Tentokrát jde o příběhy žen, které jsou vystaveny pokušení (jak jinak než ze strany mužů), často mu podléhají a musí se s tím vyrovnat.

Enthalten sind die Erzählungen: Der Fluch (The Malediction) Glasporträt eines Mädchens (Portrait of a Girl in Glass) Das Wesentliche (The Important Thing) Das Feld der blauen Kinder (The Field of Blue Children) Sommerspiel zu dritt (Three Players of a Summer Game) Rubio y Morena (Rubio y Morena) Das Tomatenbeet (The Mattress by the Tomato Patch) Der Wein (The Vine) Mamas altes Haus (Mama's Old Stucco House) Oma (\"Grand\") Fröhlicher zehnter August (Happy August the Tenth) Sabbatha und die Einsamkeit (Sabbatha and Solitude)

Tennessee Williams: Električka zvaná Túžba Jean Anouilh: Božia česť Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Fyzici John Osborne: Obzri sa v hneve Július Pašteka: Nové obzory súčasného divadla

Soubor 7x Tennessee Williams obsahuje jednoaktové hry: Podivný příběh jedné lásky (1946) — Dům na zbourání (1946) — Autodafé (1946) — 27 vagónů bavlny (1953) — Milostný dopis lorda Byrona (1946) — Mluv ke mně jako déšť... (1953) — Cosi nevysloveného (1953). V knížce zařazené aktovky amerického dramatika, pevně zakotveného i na našich divadelních scénách, vznikly vesměs v době jeho dramatických začátků, ale mají už všechny znaky jeho pozdějších vrcholných her. Stejně jako ony nechtějí řešit psychologické problémy jedince, ale snaží se na příběhu několika lidí dobrat se pravdy lidského zážitku, ukázat, že nejsou „ani ničemové, ani hrdinové, nýbrž jen cesty a scestí, kterými se ubírají lidé“.

Divadelní hra o složitém citovém vztahu a střetnutí mravních zásad až puritánské dcery pastora a živočišně bezprostředního lékaře...