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By turns delicately lyrical and shockingly violent, Tennessee Williams burst onto the American stage with The Glass Menagerie in 1944, and over the course of his career continued to write some of the twentieth century's most enduring plays. A two-time Pulitzer winner for A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Williams gave America some of its most memorable and fascinating characters in Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski, Maggie the Cat and Brick Pollitt, and Tom and Amanda Wingfield. But despite his fame, Williams always remained sensitive to the plight of those trapped at the edges of society and continued to identify with this "fugitive kind" throughout his life, writing an essay titled "The Catastrophe of Success" only a few years after The Glass Menagerie made him into a household name. A boiling mass of contradictions in life, Williams was perhaps most at home in his art, and his best-loved plays display uneasy negotiations between his personal romanticism and the brute realities of American poverty, violence, and corruption. 1.Career, Life, and Influence - The introduction considers Williams' concept of the "fugitive kind," the recurring figure of the persecute

Author

Murphy, Brenda, 1950-

Publisher

Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781587656873

Subjects

Drama, Literary Fiction, Humanities