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Tennessee Williams Essay Research Paper Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams Essay, Research Paper


Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. As a child, he lived with his mother and grandfather. When he was fourteen, Williams too first place in an essay contest sponsored by a national magazine, The Smart Set. At the age of seventeen, his first published story appeared in the August 1928 issue of Weird Tales. A year later Williams entered the University of Missouri but in 1932 he withdrew and took a job at the shoe factory where his father held a job as a sales manager. In 1935 Williams returned to college and graduated from the University of Iowa in 1938. Williams had begun writing plays while attending the University of Missouri and after his graduation he had supported himself doing a variety of small jobs. In 1939 he won a national drama award for a group of plays called American Blues. Williams achieved his first great stage success with The Glass Menagerie, which was produced in New York City in 1945. This play won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Prize as the years best play. Williams averaged two plays a year since that time. On February 4, 1983, Tennessee Williams died in New York City. Throughout Williams’ lifetime he has put forth more than twenty-five full-length plays, more than forty short plays, a dozen produced (and unproduced) screenplays and an opera libretto. These have been translated into at least twenty-seven languages, including Tamil, Welsh, Marathi and Hindi. In addition, there are two novels, a novella, more than sixty short stories, more than one hundred poems, an autobiography, a published volume of letters, introductions to plays and books by others, and occasional pieces and reviews.


PLAYS


Baby Doll & Tiger Tail


Camino Real


Cat on a Hot Tin Roof


Clothes for a Summer Hotel


Dragon Country

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The Glass Menagerie


A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur


The Read Devil Battery Sign


Small Craft Warnings


Stopped Rocking and Other Screenplays


A Streetcar Named Desire


Sweet Bird of Youth


THE THEATER OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, VOLUME 1


Battle of Angels, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie


THE THEATER OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, VOLUME II


The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Summer and Smoke, The Rose


Tattoo, Camino Real


THE THEATER OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, VOLUME III


Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer


THE THEATER OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, VOLUME IV


Sweet Bird of Youth, Period of Adjustment, The Night of the guana


THE THEATER OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, VOLUME V


The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, Kingdom of Earth (The


Seven Descents of Myrtle), Small Craft Warnings, The Two-Character Play


THE THEATER OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, VOLUME VI


27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Short Plays


THE THEATER OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, VOLUME VII


In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel and Other Plays


THE THEATER OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, VOLUME VIII


Vieux Carre, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, Clothes for a Summer


Hotel, The Red Devil Battery Sign


27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays


The Two-Character Play


Vieux Carre


POETRY


Androgyne, Mon Amour


In the Winter of Cities


PROSE


Collected Stories


Hard Candy and Other Stories


One Arm and Other Stories


The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone


Where I Live: Selected Essays

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