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Study and Revise for AS/A Level

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Study and Revise for AS/A Level( )
Author: Onyett, Nicola
Williams, Tennessee
Series title:Philip Allan Literature Guide for A-Level Ser.
ISBN:978-1-4441-2156-8
Publication Date:Dec 2011
Publisher:Trans-Atlantic Publications, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $24.95
Book Description:

The ultimate guides for the very best grades Written by experienced A-level examines and teachers who know exactly what students need to succeed, and edited by a chief examiner, Phillip Allan Literature Guides (for-A-Level) are invaluable study companions with exam-specific advice to help you to get the grade you need. Packed With- useful material to boost you chances of success, the Philip Allan Literature Guides provide a synopsis plus detailed chapter/scene summaries followed by...
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Book Details
Pages:96
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / School & Education
Juvenile Nonfiction / Inspirational & Personal Growth
Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Topics / Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.708 x 9.555 x 0.195 Inches
Book Weight:0.449 Pounds
Author Biography
Onyett, Nicola (Author)
After O'Neill, Williams is perhaps the best dramatist the United States has yet produced. Born in his grandfather's rectory in Columbus, Mississippi, Williams and his family later moved to St. Louis. There Williams endured many bad years caused by the abuse of his father and his own anguish over his introverted sister, who was later permanently institutionalized. Williams attended the University of Missouri, and, after time out to clerk for a shoe company and for his own mental breakdown, also attended Washington University of St. Louis and the University of Iowa, from which he graduated in 1938. Williams began to write plays in 1935. During 1943 he spent six months as a contract screenwriter for MGM but produced only one script, The Gentleman Caller. When MGM rejected it, Williams turned it into his first major success, The Glass Menagerie (1945). In this intensely autobiographical play, Williams dramatizes the story of Amanda, who dreams of restoring her lost past by finding a gentleman caller for her crippled daughter, and of Amanda's son Tom, who longs to escape from the responsibility of supporting his mother and sister.

After The Glass Menagerie,Williams wrote his masterpiece, A Streetcar Named Desire, (1947), along with a steady stream of other plays, among them such major works as Summer and Smoke(1948), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1954), and Suddenly Last Summer (1958). His plays celebrate the "fugitive kind," the sensitive outcasts whose outsider status allows them to perceive the horror of the world and who often give additional witness to that horror by becoming its victims. Stephen S. Stanton has summed up Williams's "virtues and strengths" as "a genius for portraiture, particularly of women, a sensitive ear for dialogue and the rhythms of natural speech, a comic talent often manifesting itself in "black comedy,' and a genuine theatrical flair exhibited in telling stage effects attained through lighting, costume, music, and movements." After The



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