No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the world. The Glass Menagerie (in the reading text the author preferred) is now available only in its New Directions Paperbook edition. A new introduction by prominent Williams scholar Robert Bray, editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award: "More than fifty years after telling his story of a family whose lives form a triangle of quiet desperation, Williams's mellifluous voice still resonates deeply and universally." This edition of The Glass Menagerie also includes Williams's essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, "The Catastrophe of Success," as well as a short section of Williams's own "Production Notes." The cover features the classic line drawing by Alvin Lustig, originally done for the 1949 New Directions edition.
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I read this book during the winter vacations for one or two days and I found myself extremely depressed after I finished it. It is a book that keeps haunting your mind for days. It expresses the surface vivacity of life with the underlying strain of immutab...
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4.5 a brilliant dramatic work about the millions of lower-middle class families in the 1930s America. so powerful and so heart-straining...
评分The characters built by TW are so painfully struggling with an inner conflict that makes life simply unbearable. The scene of Laura and Jim brings the play to a light-heared moment that soons fades into the gloomy reality of love loss and loneliness.
评分A devastating blow. I'm ruined.√
评分Williams explores his own guilt through the play Menagerie. A truly astounding 'memory play'. While static, he portrays the truth through the pleasant disguise of illusion. His poet's weakness for symbols and use of music to support the play is to its extreme as he successfully captures the most important essence of each character on stage.
评分4.5 a brilliant dramatic work about the millions of lower-middle class families in the 1930s America. so powerful and so heart-straining...
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