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100 1 $aHayman, Ronald,$d1932-2019.
245 10 $aTennessee Williams :$beveryone else is an audience /$cRonald Hayman.
260 $aNew Haven, Conn. :$bYale University Press,$c©1993.
300 $axx, 268 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aRare Book copy: In original dust jacket.$5NNC
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 262-264) and index.
505 0 $aWhere you hang your hopes -- Columbia and Washington -- Student playwright -- Exit Tom, enter Tennessee -- You old bitch! -- Hollywood worm -- Desire and cemeteries -- Roman spring -- Terminal stretch -- Relentless caper -- A bit of shared luck -- Betrayal and bereavement -- The stoned age -- Everyone else is an audience -- Quarrelsome lover -- Appendix : Analysis of recycling.
520 $aFew playwrights write as much of their lives into every work as did Tennessee Williams, and few had lives that were so obviously theatrical. Growing up amid abusive alcoholism, genteel posturing, and the incipient madness of his beloved sister, Rose, Williams produced plays in which violence exploded into rape, castration, and even cannibalism, projecting dramatic personal traumas. In this frank, compelling study, the distinguished biographer and critic Ronald Hayman explores the intersection of biography and art in one of the most exuberantly autobiographical dramatists of the American theater. By the time he died, in 1983, Williams's reputation had seriously declined. More than twenty years of drug and alcohol addiction, coupled with devastating openness about his promiscuous homosexuality, had all but destroyed one of America's greatest playwrights, while Williams's new works were increasingly unsuccessful. In recent years, however, Broadway revivals and amateur productions have testified to his enduring greatness as one of the shapers of the American theater. The major plays, such as The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire, never disappeared from American theatrical consciousness. Their heroes - Tom Wingfield, Brick Pollitt, even Blanche Du Bois - are portraits of the artist as a very troubled man. Hayman explores the life and writings of Tennessee Williams and shows how they were linked. More than any previous biographer, he unmasks the compulsive, driven man behind the characters and lays bare the pain that engendered Williams's violent apocalypses. Tennessee Williams will change the way lovers of drama experience and understand some of its finest achievements.
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541 1 $cGift;$aYale University Press.