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Understanding Tennessee Williams

Understanding Tennessee Williams

Griffin, Alice

Paperback

Series: Understanding Contemporary American Literature

Literary CriticismPlays

ISBN10: 1611170060
ISBN13: 9781611170061
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: Feb 1 2011
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Alice Griffin offers an in-depth evaluation of the nine plays that established Tennessee Williams as America's greatest lyric dramatist. Describing Williams as the first playwright writing in English to combine full-blooded characters, theatricalism, and poetic dialogue, Griffin analyzes the language, characters, dramatic effects, and staging of his classic plays and calls attention to Williams's unique gift for creating dialogue as lyrical poetry yet as authentic as everyday conversation. She reveals the importance of symbolism in his work, uncovers his often overlooked humor, and explains his insistence on plastic presentations. Griffin also chronicles the resistance that Williams met when he tried to bring his revolutionary staging ideas to the commercial theater.

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