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 hatred and a magnet for three outcast souls: storekeeper Lady Torrance, "lewd vagrant" Carol Cutrere, and religious visionary Vee Talbot. Suddenly Last Summer, described by its author as a "short morality play," has become one of his most notorious works due in no small part to the film version starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift that shocked audiences in 1959. A menacing tale of madness, jealousy, and denial,the horrors in Suddenly Last Summer build to a heart-stopping conclusion. With perceptive new introductions by playwright Martin Sherman -- he reframes Orpheus Descending in a political context and explores the psychology and sensationalism surrounding Suddenly Last Summer -- this volume also offers Williams's related essay, "The Past, the Present, and the Perhaps," and a chronology of the playwright's life and works.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0811219399
ISBN-13
9780811219396
eBay Product ID (ePID)
114203189
Product Key Features
Book Title
Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer
Author
Tennessee Williams
Format
Trade Paperback, Paperback
Language
English
Topic
American / General
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Drama
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.2in
Weight
8.2 Oz
Item Weight
7.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3545.I5365o7 2012
Publication Date
2012-12-11
Grade from
College Freshman
Introduction by
Martin Sherman
Grade to
College Graduate Student
Copyright Date
2012
Lccn
2012-030255
Dewey Decimal
812/.54
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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