No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amand...
No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the world. The Glass Menagerie (in the reading text the author preferred) is now available only in its New Directions Paperbook edition. A new introduction by prominent Williams scholar Robert Bray, editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award: "More than fifty years after telling his story of a family whose lives form a triangle of quiet desperation, Williams's mellifluous voice still resonates deeply and universally." This edition of The Glass Menagerie also includes Williams's essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, "The Catastrophe of Success," as well as a short section of Williams's own "Production Notes." The cover features the classic line drawing by Alvin Lustig, originally done for the 1949 New Directions edition.
[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...
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The fact that The Glass Menagerie was a great success when it first came out in Chicago was by itself a pleasant surprise. Laura as a character is almost antithetical to the “American Self,” whatever that entails, and yet she is somehow able to evoke empa...
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A devastating blow. I'm ruined.√
2 有用 Endless_Summer 2011-01-23 20:44:07
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. 正中靶心啊！
0 有用 紫漠 2009-01-23 09:40:27
我没法控制那些头脑有病的人或是迎合有病的头脑的人写的作品……
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4.25太出彩了！意向选择的最好的作品：剧场里迷离的灯光和音乐塑造不真实感 ，因为整部剧都是Tom的回忆，而且都是讲梦想和幻象，妈妈希望自己还是南方名媛，希望女儿也是，Tom写诗，希望逃出自己无聊的工作和家庭，剧里也都是梦比现实更真实的感觉：妈妈会为了让自己像当年的名媛穿成当年的样子，Laura和Jim可爱动人让人很想让他们谈恋爱的对话也是在有不真实且梦一样的烛光下才发生的，Jim把梦变为现实的一... 4.25太出彩了！意向选择的最好的作品：剧场里迷离的灯光和音乐塑造不真实感 ，因为整部剧都是Tom的回忆，而且都是讲梦想和幻象，妈妈希望自己还是南方名媛，希望女儿也是，Tom写诗，希望逃出自己无聊的工作和家庭，剧里也都是梦比现实更真实的感觉：妈妈会为了让自己像当年的名媛穿成当年的样子，Laura和Jim可爱动人让人很想让他们谈恋爱的对话也是在有不真实且梦一样的烛光下才发生的，Jim把梦变为现实的一刻（亲Laura) Laura就害怕抽身离开；玻璃的意向是代表梦想的易碎吧；逃火门和Tom经常去看的电影是代表Tom想离开吧；很喜欢结尾Tom说我想离开妈妈和妹妹，没想到更加记忆深刻了，这个意思是妈妈和妹妹变成回忆后反而更美了吧，而且也解释了意向为什么那么完美，因为根本就是Tom美化后的回忆啊 (展开)