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I've been reading about Tennessee Williams again recently -I studied his plays in secondary school, and part of my MSc project is building a site about his works and the era in which he lived.
Reading all this again has reminded me of how much I like what I've read of his -the writing is excellent, and he manages to write characters who can be entirely hysterical without descending into silliness. However, I only know the more famous of his plays -Sweet Bird Of Youth, Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie are the ones I studied -I've heard that his later work was a lot poorer.
Reading criticisms of his work has reminded me that, seemingly more than for any other author, the people who write criticisms actually believe that the plays are true. Looking at an analysis of "what kind of a future Stanley and Stella had together" with sources cited from all sides of the argument can be very much like watching a daytime TV analysis of yesterday's soap operas, but with more page references.
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone else had read any of the plays, or indeed seen them at the theatre or on film. Or if there's anything brilliant by / about him that I should read now... |
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