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13 juin 2024 · Tennessee Williams (1911–83) was an American dramatist whose best-known plays include A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. His work reveals a world of human frustration in which sex and violence underlie an atmosphere of romantic gentility.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
18 juin 2024 · A new film being shown as part of the Virtual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival examines the lives of both writers through their tumultuous relationship that veered between the fondness of familiarity and ugly competitive rivalry.
20 juin 2024 · For the 1951 film directed by Elia Kazan, Southern playwright Tennessee Williams was forced to add a happy ending to his 1947 play “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
6 juin 2024 · Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, play by Tennessee Williams, published and produced in 1955. It won a Pulitzer Prize. The play exposes the emotional lies governing relationships in the family of a wealthy Southern planter of humble origins. The patriarch, Big Daddy, is about to celebrate his 65th birthday.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
6 juin 2024 · In this adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, a Southern plantation family grapples with deception, jealousy, and sexual tension as they gather to celebrate the birthday of their dying patriarch. Set in the sweltering heat of Mississippi, it's a simmering cauldron of family dysfunction and buried secrets ...
13 juin 2024 · The Glass Menagerie, one-act drama by Tennessee Williams, produced in 1944 and published in 1945. The Glass Menagerie launched Williams’s career and is considered by some critics to be his finest drama.
20 juin 2024 · Tennessee Williams Meets Faulkner in 'August: Osage County'. Although the film is set in the Midwest, its dysfunctional family could easily be transplanted to the South. I didn’t know much about this movie, other than it was set in Oklahoma and starred Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep.
