{"product_id":"spring-storm-tennessee-williams-9780811214223","title":"Spring Storm","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Tennessee Williams read \u003cem\u003eSpring Storm\u003c\/em\u003e 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 have to paint our nudes! Tom's earlier comment in his journal that the play is well-constructed, no social propaganda, and is suitable for the commercial stage seems accurate enough in 1999, but woefully naive deep in the Depression when the play's sexual explicitness--particularly its matter-of-fact acceptance of a woman's right to her own sexuality--would have been seen as not only shocking but also politically radical. \u003cem\u003eSpring Storm\u003c\/em\u003e would later be disavowed by the author as simply a study of Sex--a blind animal urge or force (like the regenerative force of April) gripping four lives and leading them into a tangle of cruel and ugly relations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the solid and deft characterizations of the four young people whose lives intertwine--the sexually alive Heavenly Critchfield, her earthy lover Dick Miles, Heavenly's wealthy but tongue-tied admirer Arthur Shannon, and the repressed librarian Hertha Nielson who loves Arthur--are archetypes of characters we will meet again and again in the Williams canon. Epic in scope, a bit melodramatic in execution, tragic in outcome, \u003cem\u003eSpring Storm\u003c\/em\u003e created a wave of excitement among theatre insiders when it was given a staged reading at The Ensemble Studio Theatre's Octoberfest '96. This edition has been prepared, with an illuminating introduction, by Dan Isaac, who initiated the Octoberfest production.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tennessee Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811214222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811214223\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/17\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.92h x 5.17w x 0.48d","brand":"Tennessee Williams","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926340436223,"sku":"9780811214223","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_91c0a30a-744e-425e-ae36-d1f736c09dd6.jpg?v=1681082529","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/spring-storm-tennessee-williams-9780811214223","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}