Mister Paradise
And Other One-Act Plays
$30.29
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
27 April 2006
Summary
First Modern Classics publication of Tennessee Williams’s many one-act plays.
The greatest playwright of the American South, Tennessee Williams used his talent throughout his life to create brief plays exploring many of the themes that dominated his best-known works. Here, thirteen never-before-published one-act dramas reveal some of his most poignant and hilarious characters. From the indefatigable, witty and tough drag queens of And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141188423 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141188421 |
| Author: | Tennessee Williams, Nicholas Moschovakis |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 27 April 2006 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
“Summer at the Lake” shows the young author contemplating his restlessness and toxic love of his overbearing and manipulative mother. –John Lahr
Kudos to Nicholas Rand Moschovakis and David E. Roessel for locating and so ably editing these firecrackers. –Philip C. Kolin
The plays have an immediacy and spontaneity that make them akin to snapshots. –Olivia Jane Smith
Recommended reading.
About The Author
Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was one of the most prominent playwrights in United States after World War II. Williams’s major play, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), won a Pulitzer Prize, and established him as a major American dramatist. Williams received a Pulitzer Prize also for CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1955), about the moral decay of a Southern family.
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