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The glass menagerie

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One of Tennessee Williams' most popular plays in a special annotated edition for school and college students.

The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams' first great popular successand an autobiographical play about his mother and sister, launched thebrilliant and controversial career of this ground-breaking Americanplaywright.

Set in St Louis during the depression era of the 1930s, itis the poignant drama of a family's gradual disintegration, underpressure both from outside and within.

A frustrated mother persuadesher rebellious son to provide a 'gentleman caller' for her shy,crippled daughter, but her romantic dreams are shattered by theintervention of harsh reality.

This edition provides the author'spreferred text, available for the first time in the United Kingdom, andincludes Williams' essay on the impact of sudden fame on a strugglingwriter, 'The Catastrophe of Success', as well as a short section ofWilliams' own production notes.

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Product Details
Methuen Drama
0413745201 / 9780413745200
Paperback
812.54
13/07/2000
United Kingdom
English
xciv, 116p.
19 cm
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