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.
具體描述
讀後感
"....Security is a kind of death, I think, and it can come to you in a storm of royalty checks besides a kidney-shaped pool in Beverly Hill or anywhere at all that is removed from the conditions that made you an artist, if that's what you are or were or int...
評分1929年9月美国股市崩盘，一个月内跌去40%，自此全世界陷入大萧条。到1933年时，美国工业总产量和国民收入跌去一半，商品批发价下跌近三分之一，3月，失业人口来到1400万人，占劳动力的四分之一。大规模的失业大大降低了生活水平，《玻璃动物园》的故事就是在这样的背景下发生的...
評分 評分1929年9月美国股市崩盘，一个月内跌去40%，自此全世界陷入大萧条。到1933年时，美国工业总产量和国民收入跌去一半，商品批发价下跌近三分之一，3月，失业人口来到1400万人，占劳动力的四分之一。大规模的失业大大降低了生活水平，《玻璃动物园》的故事就是在这样的背景下发生的...
用戶評價
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.
评分也許每個人都會有那麼一段Amanda一樣的時光，躲在某段記憶裏以為那就是一生。
评分藝術傢是不是都要麵對這樣的內心拷問？是追求夢想還是承擔責任？身處兩難的境地，該如何抉擇？自卑情結也是這部劇的主題之一，還有人對美好過去的留戀如何讓我們無法看清現實，沉溺於逝去的好日子裏隻能讓人更絕望。-2013.5.27走還是不走？這是個問題。傢庭究竟是港灣還是負荷？
评分藝術傢是不是都要麵對這樣的內心拷問？是追求夢想還是承擔責任？身處兩難的境地，該如何抉擇？自卑情結也是這部劇的主題之一，還有人對美好過去的留戀如何讓我們無法看清現實，沉溺於逝去的好日子裏隻能讓人更絕望。-2013.5.27走還是不走？這是個問題。傢庭究竟是港灣還是負荷？
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.
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