Williams's views on the role of the little theater in American culture are contained in a stimulating essay, "Something wild.," which serves as an introduction to this collection.
He can compress the basic meaning of life-its pathos or its tragedy, its bravery or the quality of its love-into one small scene or a few moments of dialogue. Whether Williams is writing of derelict roomers in a New Orleans boarding house ( The Lady of Larkspur Lotion) or the memories of a venerable traveling salesman ( The Last of My Solid Gold Watches) or of delinquent children ( This Property is Condemned), his insight into human nature is that of the poet. Only one of these plays ( The Purification) is written in verse, but in all of them the approach to character is by way of poetic revelation. O元0258W Page_number_confidence 90.77 Pages 262 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.14 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210616160827 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 339 Scandate 20210615055348 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780811202251 Tts_version 4.The thirteen one-act plays collected in this volume include some of Tennessee Williams's finest and most powerful work.They are full of the perception of life as it is, and the passion for life as it ought to be, which have made The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire classics of the American theater. Urn:lcp:27wagonsfullofco0000will:lcpdf:18e2a7c8-f263-41c1-bc81-afe24d103f8b A large, fat, greedy, and ambitious sixty-year-old man with all the mannerisms and class consciousness of a hardworking, lower-middle-class Southerner, Jake proudly possesses his voluptuous young.
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