This 20th-century American playwright is renowned for his deeply psychological dramas, which often explore vulnerability, desperation, and the complexities of human relationships. His work is characterized by poetic language and intense emotional portraits of characters battling their inner demons and societal pressures. Williams masterfully captured the bittersweet realities of life, frequently set against the backdrop of a nostalgic South. His plays have become cornerstones of American theater, continuing to resonate with audiences for their raw honesty and artistic brilliance.
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 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.
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.
'One of the genre's very few genuinely comic, genuinely incisive writers' THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE
Includes three plays - Suddenly Last Summer, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, and Small Craft Warnings.
Now published for the first time as a trade paperback with a new introduction and the short story on which it was based.
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.
Tři divadelní hry amerického dramatika Tennesseeho Williamse: Tramvaj do stanice Touha (1947) — Kočka na rozpálené plechové střeše (1955) — Noc s leguánem (1961).
Deutsch von Wolf Christian Schröder und Helmar Harald Fischer. Mit einem Nachwort von Helmar Harald Fischer
Building on the formula of York Notes, this Advanced series introduces students to more sophisticated analysis and wider critical perspectives. The notes enable students to appreciate contrasting interpretations of the text and to develop their own critical thinking. Key features include: study methods; an introduction to the text; summaries with critical notes; themes and techniques; textual analysis of key passages; author biography; historical and literary background; modern and historical critical approaches; chronology; and glossary of literary terms.
Povídky o lidech, kteří nedokáží zakotvit v současném chaotickém světě, žijí ve vlastním mikrokosmu a čas má pro ně klíčový význam.
Krátké psychologické povídky, které s hlubokým pochopením líčí kritické okamžiky v životě několika žen.
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.
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore/Kingdom of Earth
Now available as a paperbook, Volume VIII adds to the series' four full-length plays written and produced during the last decade of Williams' life.
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.
Výbor z povídkové tvorby předního amerického dramatika 20. století.
A Polish translation of short stories by the noted American author.
Personnages pour "La chatte sur un toit brûlant": 4 femmes, 6 hommes, 5 enfants, figurants.
Sweet Bird of Youth, The Rose Tattoo, The Night of the Iguana
Three classic plays from the preeminent American playright are presented in this collection that examines the power of love and the limits of evil.
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.
Außer dem letzten, datiert auf 1944, dem Monat, in dem seine Großmutter starb, wurden die Erzählungen von Tennessee Williams, die in „Acht Damen, besessen und sterblich“ versammelt sind, zu Beginn der 1970er Jahre geschrieben. Es sind Stücke der Reife, in denen der Autor scheint, auf die Themen und Charaktere zurückzublicken, die ihn zu einem Klassiker gemacht haben, aus einer bissigen Nostalgie und groteskem Humor. „Wenn man nicht in Flüstern sprechen kann, ist es weise zu schreien“, und diese Weisheit des Schreis prägt das Porträt von acht Frauen, die sich nicht damit abfinden, in der „Verschwörung der Mittelmäßigkeit“ gefangen zu sein, die die Welt ihnen auferlegt, noch in der unüberwindbaren Sterblichkeit, die ihnen das Schicksal auferlegt.
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.
Tennessee Williams, America's greatest playwright, openly discusses his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use in this candid reflection. Over thirty years later, his revelations seem less shocking than they once did.
- 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
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
A torrent of memory, longing, and sensuality. The novel revolves around a young writer, infused with autobiographical elements, and a painter in the artist quarter of New York.
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)
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.
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.
E.O´Neill: Ľadár prichádza, T. Wilder - Iba o vlások, T. Williams - Kráľovská cesta, A. Miller - Skúška ohňom
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“.
Poněkud bizarní a symbolistická hra amerického dramatika T. Williamse, v níž vystupují nejrůznější postavy, mj. Don Quijote, Casanova a lord Byron.
Psychologická novela amerického dramatika zdomácnělého svými hrami i na našich jevištích. 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 přicházejícímustáří, se stane trapnou obětí římského gigola. Doslov napsal Josef Škvorecký.
The Glass Menagerie was Tennesse Williams's first dramatic success. Though he went on to write such unforgettable plays as A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, it remains in the minds of many his most moving masterpiece, his most perfectly wrought triumph. The story of a mother, her son and daughter, and her daughter's suitor, it brings to life human beings who cling to a dream world that can so easily be shattered into jagged pieces, as illusion is destroyed by reality. (back cover)
Tennessee Williams: Električka zvaná Túžba Jean Anouilh: Božia česť Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Fyzici John Osborne: Obzri sa v hneve Július Pašteka: Nové obzory súčasného divadla
Divadelní hra o složitém citovém vztahu a střetnutí mravních zásad až puritánské dcery pastora a živočišně bezprostředního lékaře...
A collection of playscripts for 3 of Tennessee Williams' plays.
Tragédie ve třech dějstvích, jejíž symbolickou rovinu tvoří půdorys známého řeckého mýtu, prolínající se Williamsovým příběhem.
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
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
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.
A 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 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 Tail County, Mississippi until she is "ready," has gained in humor and pathos over the years as society has caught up with the author’s savagely honest view of bigotry and lust in the rural South. But Tennessee Williams was first and foremost a writer for the stage, and this reissue of his original screenplay for the Elia Kazan movie of Baby Doll is now accompanied by the script of the full-length stage play, Tiger Tail, developed from that screenplay during the ’70s. The text, which incorporates the author’s final revisions, records the play as it was produced at the Hippodrome Theatre Workshop in Gainesville, Florida, in 1979.
Englische Literatur in Reclams Roter Reihe: das ist der englische Originaltext – mit Worterklärungen am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen. »Cat on a Hot Tin Roof« ist die Geschichte einer Familie in den amerikanischen Südstaaten. Krankheit, Alkohol und Eifersucht haben sie zerstört. Liebe und Hass liegen dicht beieinander. An einem schwülen Sommerabend bricht die Verzweiflung aus der Familie heraus, und es kommt zu einem dramatischen Konflikt Englische Lektüre: Niveau B2–C1 (GER) Sprachen: Deutsch, Englisch
Schulausgabe für das Niveau B2, ab dem 6. Lernjahr. Ungekürzter englischer Originaltext mit Annotationen
Das 1947 uraufgeführte Beziehungsdrama beschreibt die Konfrontation zwischen der alternden Südstaatenschönheit Blanche und ihrem Schwager, dem Einwanderer Stanley. Während Blanche versucht, die Fassade einer wohlhabenden Plantagenbesitzertochter aufrechtzuerhalten, hält Stanley ihr ihren wahren Lebenswandel vor und sabotiert ihre Hoffnung auf ein neues Leben mit ihrem Verehrer Mitch. Abiturempfehlung zum Themenbereich American South
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.
