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An edition of The Glass Menagerie
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The Glass Menagerie
Methuen Student Edition
by Tennessee Williams
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The Glass Menagerie was Tennessee Williams's first great popular success. It won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and enjoyed a long Broadway run with the incomparable Laurette Taylor in the starring role. Since then it has become one of the most-performed plays in the repertory of American community theaters.
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The Glass Menagerie
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The Glass Menagerie
1999, New Directions
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The Glass Menagerie (Heinemann Plays)
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The Glass Menagerie
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1970, The New Classics
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The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams' first great popular success, launched the brilliant and æntroversial career of this ground-breaking American playwright. Set in St Louis during the depression era of the 1930s, it is the poignant drama of a family's gradual disintegration, under pressure both from outside and within. A frustrated mother persuades her rebellious son to provide a 'gentleman caller' for her shy, crippled daughter, but her romantic dreams are shattered by the intervention of harsh reality. The play premiered in Chicago in 1944, in a production featuring the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda. Since then, a line of great actresses have shone as this archetypal 'ageing southern belle', but The Glass Menagerie is nevertheless a true ensemble piece. This edition provides the author's preferred reading text and includes Williams' essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, 'The Catastrophe of Success', as well as a short section of Williams' own production notes.
Methuen Student Editions are expertly annotated texts of a wide range of plays from the modern and classic repertoires. As well as the complete text of the play itself, the volume contains a chronology of the playwright's life and work; an introduction giving the background to the play; a discussion of the various interpretations; and notes on individual words and phrases in the text.
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