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Tennessee Williams : Everyone Else Is an Audience by Ronald Hayman (1994, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-100300054149
ISBN-139780300054149
eBay Product ID (ePID)92610
Product Key Features
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameTennessee Williams : Everyone Else Is an Audience
SubjectDrama, Literary
Publication Year1994
TypeTextbook
AuthorRonald Hayman
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight20.7 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN93-024544
Dewey Edition20
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal812.5/4
SynopsisFew playwrights write as much of their lives into every work as did Tennessee Williams, and few had lives that were so obviously theatrical. Growing up amid abusive alcoholism, genteel posturing, and the incipient madness of his beloved sister, Rose, Williams produced plays in which violence exploded into rape, castration, and even cannibalism, projecting dramatic personal traumas. In this frank, compelling study, the distinguished biographer and critic Ronald Hayman explores the intersection of biography and art in one of the most exuberantly autobiographical dramatists of the American theater. By the time he died, in 1983, Williams' reputation had seriously declined. More than twenty years of drug and alcohol addiction, coupled with devastating openness about his promiscuous homosexuality, had all but destroyed one of America's greatest playwrights, and Williams' new works were increasingly unsuccessful. In recent years, however, Broadway revivals and amateur productions have testified to his enduring greatness as one of the shapers of the American theater. The major plays such as The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , and A Streetcar Named Desire, never disappeared from American theatrical consciousness. Their heroes--Tom Wingfield, Brick Pollitt, even Blanch Du Bois--are portraits of the artist as a very troubled man. Hayman explores the life and writings of Tennessee Williams and shows how they were linked. More than any previous biographer, he unmasks the compulsive, driven man behind the characters and lays bare the pain that engendered Williams' violent apocalypses. Tennessee Williams will change the way lovers of drama experience and understand some of Williams' finest achievements.
LC Classification NumberPS3545
