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27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays
They are full of the perception of life as it is, and the passion for life as it ought to be, which have made The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire classics of the American theater. Only one of these plays (The Purification)...- $16.95
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A House Not Meant to Stand: A Gothic Comedy
Christmas 1982: Cornelius and Bella McCorkle of Pascagoula, Mississippi, return home one midnight in a thunderstorm from the Memphis funeral of their older son to a house and a life literally falling apart--daughter Joanie is in an insane asylum and their younger son Charlie...- $14.95
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A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur: Play
It is a warm June morning in the West End of St. Louis in the mid-thirties--a lovely Sunday for a picnic at Creve Coeur Lake. But Dorothea, one of Tennessee Williams's most engaging marginally youthful, forever hopeful Southern belles, is home waiting for a...- $14.95
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A Streetcar Named Desire
It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continueto have the same power and impact as when they first appeared 57 yearsafter its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desireis one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the...- $25.80
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Following his 2019 production of A Raisin in the Sun, celebrated as an absorbing, watershed revival, by The New York Times, Robert O'Hara returns to Williamstown Theatre Festival to direct this Tennessee Williams masterpiece. With Emmy, Grammy, and six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald...- $19.99
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A Streetcar Named Desire
It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared--57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire is one of those plays. The story famously recounts...- $12.95
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A Streetcar Named Desire
It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continueto have the same power and impact as when they first appeared 57 yearsafter its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desireis one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the...- $25.80
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A Streetcar Named Desire (Hardcover Library Edition)
First published in 1947, 'A Streetcar Named Desire' is an American play by Tennessee Williams, an American playwright, and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama. It centers on a...- $22.99
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Baby Doll
Lucy Bailey's adaptation of Tennessee Williams' notorious screenplayAuthor: Tennessee WilliamsISBN-10: 0573019703ISBN-13: 9780573019708Publisher: Samuel French LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/02/2003Pages: 82Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.17d- $13.95
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Baby Doll & Tiger Tail: Screenplay and Theatre Script
In 1956, Time magazine called Tennessee Williams' Baby Doll "just possibly the dirtiest American-made motion picture that has ever been legally exhibited." The taut, vivid drama of a voluptuous child-bridge, who refuses to consummate her marriage to an older, down-on-his-luck cotton-gin owner in Tiger...- $23.95
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Camino Real
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...- $14.95
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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...- $14.95
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Caterpillar Dogs: And Other Early Stories
These tales were penned by one Thomas Lanier Williams of Missouri before he became a successful playwright, and yet his voice is unmistakable. The reliable idiosyncrasies and quiet dignity of Williams's eccentrics are already present in his characters. Consider the diminutive octogenarian of "The...- $14.95
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Clothes for a Summer Hotel: Play
The late Tennessee Williams's Clothes for a Summer Hotelmade its New York debut in 1980. Here Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, often seen as symbols of the doomed youth of the jazz age, become two halves of a single creative psyche, each part alternately feeding...- $8.95
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Dragon County
"First published as New Directions Paperbook 287, 1970; published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Limited."--T.p. verso.Author: Tennessee WilliamsISBN-10: 0811202194ISBN-13: 9780811202190Publisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1970Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 7.93h x 5.20w x 0.76d- $19.95
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Fugitive Kind
Fugitive Kind, one of Tennessee Williams's earliest plays, is one of his richest in dramatic material. Written in 1937 when the playwright was still Thomas Lanier Williams, Fugitive Kind introduces the character who will inhabit most of his later plays: the marginal man or...- $13.95
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In the Winter of Cities: Poetry
Few writers achieve success in more than one genre, and yet if Tennessee Williams had never written a single play he would still be known as a distinguished poet. The excitement, compassion, lyricism, and humor that epitomize his writing for the theater are all...- $16.95
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Memoirs
When Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the mediathough long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candor about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself, and such revelations...- $18.95
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Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays
Tennessee Williams had a distinct talent for writing short plays and, not surprisingly, this remarkable new collection of never-before-published one-acts includes some of his most poignant and hilarious characters: the indefatigable, witty and tough drag queens of And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths...- $17.95
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Moise and the World of Reason
An erotic, sensual, and comic novel that was a generation ahead of its time, Moise and the World of Reason has at its center the need of three people for each other: Lance, the beautiful black figure skater full of love and lust for...- $15.95
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New Selected Essays: Where I Live
For most of his Broadway plays Tennessee Williams composed an essay, most often for The New York Times, to be published just prior to opening--something to whet the theatergoers' appetites and to get the critics thinking. Many of these were collected in the 1978...- $18.95
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Not about Nightingales
In early 1998, sixty years after it was written, one of Tennessee Williams' first full-length plays, Not About Nightingales, was premiered by Britain's Royal National Theatre and was immediately hailed as one of the most remarkable theatrical discoveries of the last quarter century (London...- $14.95
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Now the Cats with Jeweled Claws & Other One-Act Plays
This new collection of fantastic, lesser-known one-acts contains some of Williams's most potent, comical and disturbing short plays?Upper East Side ladies dine out during the apocalypse in Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws, while the poet Hart Crane is confronted by his mother at...- $17.95
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One Arm and Other Stories
Here are the eleven remarkable stories of Tennessee Williams's first volume of short fiction, originally published in 1948 and reissued as a paperbook in response to an increasingly insistent public demand. It was this book which established Williams as a short story writer of...- $17.95
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Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer
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...- $16.95
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Something Cloudy, Something Clear
Something Cloudy, Something Clear is, as Tennessee Williams stated, "one of the most personal plays I've ever written." Set in Provincetown, Cape Cod, in 1940, the play records Williams' experiences during that "pivotal summer when I took sort of a crash course in growing...- $9.95
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Spring Storm
When Tennessee Williams read Spring Storm aloud to his playwriting class at the University of Iowa in 1938, he was met with silence and embarrassment. His professor, the renowned E. C. Mabie, remarked as he got up and dismissed the seminar, Well, we all...- $16.95
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Stairs to the Roof: A Prayer for the Wild of Heart That Are Kept in Cages
Sixty years ago a young Tennessee Williams wrote a play looking toward the year 2001. Stairs to the Roof is a rare and different Williams' work: a love story, a comedy, an experiment in meta-theater, with a touch of early science fiction. Tennessee Williams...- $14.95
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Sweet Bird of Youth
Tennessee Williams knew how to tell a good tale, and this steamy, wrenching play about a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, and about the lost innocence and corruption of Chance Wayne, reveals the dark side of the American dreams of youth and fame....- $14.95
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Tales of Desire
"I cannot write any sort of story," said Tennessee [to Gore Vidal] "unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire." These transgressive Tales of Desire, including "One Arm," "Desire and the Black Masseur," "Hard Candy," and "The...- $9.95
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Tennessee Williams: One Act Plays
The peak of my virtuosity was in the one- act plays. Some of which are like firecrackers on a rope. Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams' lesser-known one act plays reveal a tantalising and fascinating perspective to one of the world's most important playwrights.Written between 1934 and...- $25.95
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The Collected Plays of Tennessee Williams: A Library of America Boxed Set
In celebration of the Tennessee Williams centennial in 2011, The Library of America presents its acclaimed two-volume edition of his plays in a collector's boxed set. Gathering thirty-two works written from the 1930s to the 1980s, this collection contains all the essential dramatic works...- $90.00
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The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie marked a crucial turning point in American theater, and forever changed the life of its then unknown author. Williams's elegiac master- piece brought a radical new lyricism to Broadway -- the tragedy, fragility, and tenderness of this "memory play" have made...- $26.95
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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...- $12.95
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The Glass Menagerie
Tom Wingfield recalls events at his troubled home in St Louis, where his suffocating mother, Amanda Wingfield, badgers him to locate a gentleman caller for his sister, Laura, a shy, lame girl who occupies herself with music and a collection of glass animals. Featuring...- $30.00
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The Glass Menagerie
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...- $19.99
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The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays
Here are portraits of American life during the Great Depression and after, populated by a hopelessly hopeful chorus girl, a munitions manufacturer ensnared in a love triangle, a rural family that deals "justice" on its children, an overconfident mob dandy, a poor couple who...- $18.95
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The Night of the Iguana
Williams wrote: "This is a play about love in its purest terms." It is also Williams's robust and persuasive plea for endurance and resistance in the face of human suffering. The earthy widow Maxine Faulk is proprietress of a rundown hotel at the edge...- $15.95
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The Notebook of Trigorin: A Free Adaptation of Chechkov's the Sea Gull
From the master twentieth-century playwright Tennessee Williams-an adaptation of Chekhov's The Sea Gull, never before available to the general trade. The Notebook of Trigorin is faithful to Chekhov's story of longing and unrequited love. Set on a provincial Russian Estate, its peaceful environs offer...- $15.95
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams. Published in 1950, his first novel was acclaimed by Gore Vidal as "splendidly written, precise, short, complete, and fine." It is the story of a wealthy, fiftyish American widow recently a famous stage beauty,...- $15.95
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The Rose Tattoo
The Rose Tattoo is larger than life--a fable, a Greek tragedy, a comedy, a melodrama--it is a love letter from Tennessee Williams to anyone who has ever been in love or ever will be. Professional widow and dressmaker Serafina delle Rosa has withdrawn from...- $15.95
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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume 1
Author: Tennessee WilliamsISBN-10: 0811204170ISBN-13: 9780811204170Publisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1971Pages: 428Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 8.23h x 5.66w x 1.31d- $35.00
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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume 8: Vieux Carre/A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur/Clothes for a Summer Hotel/The Red Devil Battery Sign
The eighth volume of Tennessee Williams's collected plays - for the first time in paperback. Contains the following four plays: Vieux Carre: " Williams is completely in control here."London TimesA Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur: "Collections should include this view of a lady who...- $22.95
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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume II: The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Summer and Smoke, the Rose Tattoo, Camino Real
Author: Tennessee WilliamsISBN-10: 0811211363ISBN-13: 9780811211369Publisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/1990Pages: 604Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.39lbsSize: 7.95h x 5.15w x 1.60d- $32.95
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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume V: The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, Kingdom of Earth, Small Craft Warnings, the Two-Character Play
Presents the texts of the American playwright's dramas together with original cast listings and notes on their production.Author: Tennessee WilliamsISBN-10: 0811205932ISBN-13: 9780811205931Publisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1976Pages: 380Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 8.86h x 5.74w x 1.29d- $44.95
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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume V: The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, Kingdom of Earth, Small Craft Warnings, the Two-Character Play
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams brings together in a matching format the plays of one of America's most influential and innovative dramatists. Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes the original cast listings and production notes. Volume 1 leads with Battle of Angels,...- $27.95
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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume VII: In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel and Other Plays
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams brings together in matching format the plays of one of America's most persistently influential and innovative dramatists. Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes the original cast listings and production notes for all full-length plays. Now available as...- $21.95
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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume I: Battle of Angels, the Glass Menagerie, a Streetcar Named Desire
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams brings together in a matching format the plays of one of the America's most influential and innovative dramatists. Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes the original cast listings and production notes.Author: Tennessee WilliamsISBN-10: 0811211355ISBN-13: 9780811211352Publisher: New Directions...- $21.95
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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume III: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams brings together in a matching format the plays of one of the America's most influential and innovative dramatists. Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes the original cast listings and production notes.Author: Tennessee WilliamsISBN-10: 0811211967ISBN-13: 9780811211963Publisher: New Directions...- $25.95
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The Traveling Companion and Other Plays
Even with his great commercial success, Tennessee Williams always considered himself an experimental playwright. In the last 25 years of his life his explorations increased--especially in shorter forms and one-act plays--as Williams created performance pieces with elements of theater of the absurd, theater of...- $17.95
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