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Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer
Taschenbuch von Tennessee Williams
Sprache: Englisch

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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.

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.

Über den Autor

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was America's most influential playwright. Readers have devoured his poetry, essays, short stories, and letters, as well as his fantastic late plays, his remarkable corpus of one-acts, and his greatest plays-The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Night of the Iguana, The Rose Tattoo, Suddenly Last Summer, and Camino Real. Williams is a cornerstone of New Directions-we publish everything he wrote. He is also our single bestselling author.

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Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Genre: Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: New Directions Books
ISBN-13: 9780811219396
ISBN-10: 0811219399
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Williams, Tennessee
Solist: Sherman, Martin
Hersteller: New Directions Publishing Corporation
New Directions Books
Maße: 203 x 131 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Tennessee Williams
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.12.2012
Gewicht: 0,239 kg
Artikel-ID: 123829145
Über den Autor

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was America's most influential playwright. Readers have devoured his poetry, essays, short stories, and letters, as well as his fantastic late plays, his remarkable corpus of one-acts, and his greatest plays-The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Night of the Iguana, The Rose Tattoo, Suddenly Last Summer, and Camino Real. Williams is a cornerstone of New Directions-we publish everything he wrote. He is also our single bestselling author.

Details
Empfohlen (bis): 22
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Genre: Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: New Directions Books
ISBN-13: 9780811219396
ISBN-10: 0811219399
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Williams, Tennessee
Solist: Sherman, Martin
Hersteller: New Directions Publishing Corporation
New Directions Books
Maße: 203 x 131 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Tennessee Williams
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.12.2012
Gewicht: 0,239 kg
Artikel-ID: 123829145
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