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With vivid cameos of the formative influences in Williams's life-his fierce, belittling father Cornelius; his puritanical, domineering mother Edwina; his demented sister Rose, who was lobotomized at the age of thirty-three; his beloved grandfather, the Reverend Walter Dakin-Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh is as much a biography of the man who created A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as it is a trenchant exploration of Williams's plays and the tortured process of bringing them to stage and screen.
The portrait of Williams himself is unforgettable: a virgin until he was twenty-six, he had serial homosexual affairs thereafter as well as long-time, bruising relationships with Pancho Gonzalez and Frank Merlo. With compassion and verve, Lahr explores how Williams's relationships informed his work and how the resulting success brought turmoil to his personal life.
Lahr captures not just Williams's tempestuous public persona but also his backstage life, where his agent Audrey Wood and the director Elia Kazan play major roles, and Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Bette Davis, Maureen Stapleton, Diana Barrymore, and Tallulah Bankhead have scintillating walk-on parts. This is a biography of the highest order: a book about the major American playwright of his time written by the major American drama critic of his time.
With vivid cameos of the formative influences in Williams's life-his fierce, belittling father Cornelius; his puritanical, domineering mother Edwina; his demented sister Rose, who was lobotomized at the age of thirty-three; his beloved grandfather, the Reverend Walter Dakin-Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh is as much a biography of the man who created A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as it is a trenchant exploration of Williams's plays and the tortured process of bringing them to stage and screen.
The portrait of Williams himself is unforgettable: a virgin until he was twenty-six, he had serial homosexual affairs thereafter as well as long-time, bruising relationships with Pancho Gonzalez and Frank Merlo. With compassion and verve, Lahr explores how Williams's relationships informed his work and how the resulting success brought turmoil to his personal life.
Lahr captures not just Williams's tempestuous public persona but also his backstage life, where his agent Audrey Wood and the director Elia Kazan play major roles, and Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Bette Davis, Maureen Stapleton, Diana Barrymore, and Tallulah Bankhead have scintillating walk-on parts. This is a biography of the highest order: a book about the major American playwright of his time written by the major American drama critic of his time.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Rubrik: | Literaturwissenschaft |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| ISBN-13: | 9780393351651 |
| ISBN-10: | 0393351653 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Lahr, John |
| Hersteller: | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Maße: | 211 x 141 x 40 mm |
| Von/Mit: | John Lahr |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 21.09.2015 |
| Gewicht: | 0,645 kg |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Rubrik: | Literaturwissenschaft |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| ISBN-13: | 9780393351651 |
| ISBN-10: | 0393351653 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Lahr, John |
| Hersteller: | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Maße: | 211 x 141 x 40 mm |
| Von/Mit: | John Lahr |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 21.09.2015 |
| Gewicht: | 0,645 kg |
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