Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright. Along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.
After years of obscurity, he became suddenly famous with The Glass Menagerie (1944), a play that closely reflected his own unhappy family background. This heralded a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), and Sweet Bird of Youth (1959). His later work attempted a new style that did not appeal to audiences, and alcohol and drug dependence further inhibited his creative output. His drama A Streetcar Named Desire is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Much of Williams' most acclaimed work was adapted for the cinema. He also wrote short stories, poetry, essays and a volume of memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura, her shy crippled daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories. Amanda is desperate to find her daughter a husband, but when the long-awaited gentleman caller does arrive, Laura's romantic illusions are crushed.
[Spoilers Alert] Tennessee Williams explores his guilt through Tom's story in the play Glass Menagerie. Similar to Tom, he also abandoned his sister Rose and mother in search for freedom and adventure. However, as the play travels through the three concentr...
评分 评分I read this book during the winter vacations for one or two days and I found myself extremely depressed after I finished it. It is a book that keeps haunting your mind for days. It expresses the surface vivacity of life with the underlying strain of immutab...
评分一、断电的灯泡,不愿醒的梦 光启,三十年代的美国中产阶级的生活环境便出现在了舞台上。 温菲尔德家住在一栋楼房的后部,面对着喧闹的歌舞厅,进出靠一架救火梯。我猜想这救火梯或是田纳西·威廉斯青年时代的深刻记忆,要么是对温菲尔德一家生活状况的诗意嘲讽——“因为所有...
评分田纳西威廉斯,一个喜欢用gay来表达快乐意思的剧作家。 独角兽的角碎掉那场戏差点看哭了,真是又励志又惆怅。
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评分I didn't go to the moon, I went much further--for time is the longest distance between two places. /The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
评分每个人搭建的美梦都随着摔下桌子的玻璃独角兽一起破碎。 “Blow out your candles, Laura - and so goodbye…”
评分第二次读。记忆剧,回忆中的音乐,浓缩的象征,对场面调度的重视,读剧本画面感非常强,呼之欲出。真实的苦痛,三个人各自的逃避,黄水仙,蓝玫瑰,鞋盒上的诗。最后的独白令人心碎。吹灭蜡烛吧,劳拉,然后再见了。
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