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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 of the playwright who transformed the American stage. The first volume opens with the rediscovered early plays, Spring Storm and Not About Nightingales, and contains such classics as The Glass Menagerie,A Streetcar Named Desire, The Rose Tattoo, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, as well as a selection of one acts. The second volume includes Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer, Sweet Bird of Youth, Period of Adjustment, The Night of the Iguana, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Out Cry,and A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur.Product Identifiers
PublisherThe Library of America
ISBN-101598531042
ISBN-139781598531046
eBay Product ID (ePID)189969164
Product Key Features
FormatHardback
LanguageEnglish
TopicDrama Texts, Plays & Screenplays
Additional Product Features
Place of PublicationNew York
Edited byMel Gussow, Tennessee Williams
Author BiographyThis two-volume edition is edited by Mel Gussow (1933 2005), who was a drama critic, a cultural writer at The New York Times, and author of several books including Edward Albee: A Singular Journey, and by Kenneth Holditch, professor emeritus at the University of New Orleans, editor since 1989 of the Tennessee Williams Journal, and the author of In Old New Orleans.
Date of Publication03/03/2011
Country of PublicationUnited States