Details

Description

8 volumes ; 21 cm.

Series

A New directions paperbook ; 694, 736, 797, 919

New Directions paperbook ; 694, 736, 797, 919.

Contents

volume 1. Battle of the angels ; The glass menagerie ; A streetcar named Desire -- volume 2. The eccentricities of a nightingale ; Summer and smoke ; The rose tattoo ; Camino Real -- volume 3. Cat on a hot tin roof ; Orpheus descending ; Suddenly last summer -- volume 4. Sweet bird of youth ; Period of adjustment ; The night of the iguana -- volume 5. The milk train doesn't stop here anymore ; Kingdom of Earth (The seven descents of Myrtle) ; Small craft warnings ; The two-character play -- volume 6. 27 wagons full of cotton ; The purification ; The lady of larkspur lotion ; The last of my solid gold watches ; Portrait of a madonna ; Auto-da-fé ; Lord Byron's love letter ; The strangest kind of romance ; The long good-bye ; Hello from Bertha ; This property is condemned ; Talk to me like the rain ... ; Something unspoken ; The unsatisfactory supper ; Steps must be gentle ; The demolition downtown -- volume 7. In the bar of a Tokyo hotel ; I rise in flame, cried the Phoenix ; The mutilated ; I can't imagine tomorrow ; Confessional ; The frosted glass coffin ; The gnädiges Fräulein ; A perfect analysis given by a parrot ; Lifeboat drill ; Now the cats with jewelled claws ; This is the peaceable kingdom -- volume 8. Vieux carré ; A lovely Sunday for creve coeur ; Clothes for a summer hotel ; The red devil battery sign.

Summary

The theatre of Tennessee Williams presents, in matching format, the plays of one of America's most consistently influential and innovative dramatists. The first five volumes of this ongoing series contain Williams' full-length plays through 1975 and, in addition to the texts themselves, include original cast listings and production notes. Volumes 6 and 7 contain Williams' collected shorter plays. Now available as a paperbook, Volume 8 adds to the series' four full-length plays written and produced during the last decade of Williams' life. The text used for each play was corrected and revised by the playwright in preparation for publication, or, in the case of the posthumously published Red Devil battery sign, makes use of his last known revision.

Subject

Drama -- Collections.

American drama.

American drama.

Drama.

Plays.

Genre/Form

Collections.

Added Title

Plays

ISBN

0811211355 (v. 1)

9780811211352 (v. 1)

9780811211369 (v. 2 ; pbk.)

0811211363 (v. 2 ; pbk.)

9780811211963 (v. 3 ; pbk.)

0811211967 (v. 3 ; pbk.)

9780811212571 (v. 4 ; pbk. ; acid-free paper)

0811212572 (v. 4 ; pbk. ; acid-free paper)

9780811211376 (v. 5 ; pbk. ; acid-free paper)

0811211371 (v. 5 ; pbk. ; acid-free paper)

9780811212151 (v. 6 ; pbk. ; acid-free paper)

0811212157 (v. 6 ; pbk. ; acid-free paper)

9780811212861 (v. 7)

0811212866 (v. 7)

9780811214759 (v. 8 ; pbk.)

0811214753 (v. 8 ; pbk.)