Bücher von Tennessee Williams

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. 'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers'Fading southern belle Blanche DuBois is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley Kowalski. Eventually their violent collision course causes Blanche's fragile sense of identity to crumble, threatening to destroy her sanity and her one chance of happiness.Tennessee Williams's steamy and shocking landmark drama, recreated as the immortal film starring Marlon Brando, is one of the most influential plays of the twentieth century.This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Arthur Miller.'Lyrical and poetic and human and heartbreaking and memorable and funny'Francis Ford Coppola, director of The Godfather'One of the greatest American plays'Observer

First published in 1947, 'A Streetcar Named Desire' is an American play by Tennessee Williams, an American playwright, and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama. It centers on a desolated woman named Blanche DuBois. Raised in Old South aristocratic traditions, she lived elegantly in the family homestead, married a man she adored, and pursued a career as an English teacher. But her life fell apart when she discovered that her husband, Allen Grey, was having a homosexual affair. Humiliated, he killed himself. Blanche sought comfort in the arms of other men, many men. After she had relations with one of her students, a 17-year-old, authorities learned of the encounter and fired her. Though scarred by her past, Blanche still tries to lead the life of an elegant lady and does her best, even lying when necessary, to keep up appearances. Top 10 Hardcover Library Books: A Wrinkle in Time (9789389440188) How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (9789387669161) Their Eyes Were Watching God (9789389440577) The Magic of Believing (9789388118217) Zen in the Art of Archery (9789354990298) A Cloud by Day, a Fire by Night (9789391181611) Siddhartha by Hermann hesse (9789387669116) The Richest Man in Babylon (9789354990717) The Book of Five Rings (9789389440553) The Knowledge of the Holy (9789389157239) Note: Search by ISBN

"Forever Young" ist Frank Castorfs Bearbeitung und Inszenierung des Theaterstücks "Süßer Vogel Jugend" von Tennessee Williams, uraufgeführt in New York 1959.Der Band enthält das Bühnenmanuskript des Originals in der deutschen Übersetzung von Nina Adler

Amanda Wingfield lebt mit ihren zwei erwachsenen Kindern in einer kleinen Wohnung in St. Louis. Amanda, frühzeitig von ihrem Ehemann verlassen, flüchtet sich ebenso in eine Traumwelt wie ihre beiden Kinder. Tom entflieht seinem trostlosen Dasein in die illusionäre Wirklichkeit des Kinos und träumt davon, Dichter zu werden. Lauras Lebensinhalt besteht darin, zerbrechliche Glastierchen zu sammeln. Mit Jim O'Connor tritt die Realität ins Leben der Familie. O'Connor, von der Mutter als Heiratskandidat für die Tochter betrachtet, ist bereits anderweits gebunden und zerbricht nicht nur eines von Lauras Glastierchen.¿Die Glasmenagerie¿ war Tennessee Williams' Durchbruch als Dramatiker und wurde 1945 mit überwältigendem Erfolg uraufgeführt. Wie fast alle seine Stücke wurde auch ¿Die Glasmenagerie¿ in Hollywood verfilmt. ¿Die Glasmenagerie¿ wurde von Jörn van Dyck neu übersetzt.

Archie Lee Meighan's cotton gin business is foundering in the face of Silva Vacarro's Syndicate Gin. On the day Archie's furniture is repossessed he takes action, burning down the Syndicate Gin. Silva then pays Archie and his wife Baby Doll a visit, seeing the latter as the key to justice.

'Big Daddy' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion: Gooper, his wife and children, Brick, an ageing football hero who has turned to drink, and his feisty wife Maggie. As the hot summer evening unfolds, the veneer of happy family life and Southern gentility gradually slips away as unpleasant truths emerge and greed, lies, jealousy and suppressed sexuality threaten to reach boiling point. Made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a masterly portrayal of family tensions and individuals trapped in prisons of their own making.