{"product_id":"tennessee-williams-plays-19371955-library-of-america-9781883011864","title":"Tennessee Williams: Plays 1937-1955 (Library of America)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTennessee Williamss explosive  often violent  plays shattered conventional proprieties and transformed the American stage. They inspired some of the most famous productions and performances in theatrical and film history  and they continue to grip audiences all over the world. Now  in an authoritative two-volume edition  The Library of America collects the plays that define Williamss extraordinary range and achievement. This first volume begins with the stunning rediscovered plays of Williamss early career: Spring Storm  a tragedy of provincial longing that prefigures the mood and language of his later work  and Not About Nightingales  a stark prison drama  produced in 1998 to international acclaim  that resounds with the playwrights outraged idealism. With the autobiographical The Glass Menagerie in 1944  Williams attained what he later called \"the catastrophe of success \" a success made all the greater by A Streetcar Named Desire  his most famous play and one of the most influential works of modern American literature.  Forging an idiom that uniquely blended lyricism and brutality  a tragic sense of life and a genius for comic observation  he continued to revolutionize the American theater with a series of masterpieces: the poignant and melancholy Summer and Smoke  the light-hearted erotic comedy The Rose Tattoo  the sprawling and surrealistic Camino Real  and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof  the Pulitzer Prizewinning portrayal of a ruthless family struggle. This volume also contains Battle of Angels (an early version of Orpheus Descending)  and a selection of Williamss one-act plays  including 27 Wagons Full of Cotton  The Property Is Condemned  and I Rise in Flame  Cried the Phoenix  a meditation on the life and work of D. H. Lawrence.  This edition includes a newly researched chronology of Tennessee Williamss life  explanatory notes (including cast lists of many of the original productions)  and an essay on the texts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279648907317,"sku":"ByrdShop_1883011868","price":26.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781883011864.jpg?v=1780604752","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/tennessee-williams-plays-19371955-library-of-america-9781883011864","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}