Tennessee Williams (1911–1983)
Autore di Un tram che si chiama Desiderio
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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 Night of the Iguana (1961), Williams continued to write profusely---and constantly to revise his work---but it became more difficult to get productions of his plays and, if they were produced, to win critical or popular acclaim for them. Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for these two and for The Glass Menagerie and The Night of the Iguana. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Tennessee Williams. UH Photographs Collection.
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Opere di Tennessee Williams
Summer and Smoke / Orpheus Descending / Suddenly Last Summer / Period of Adjustment (1976) 457 copie
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore / The Night of the Iguana (1990) 250 copie
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume 2: Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Summer and Smoke, The Rose Tattoo, Camino… (1971) 57 copie
The Glass Menagerie / A Streetcar Named Desire / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / Suddenly Last Summer (1955) 47 copie
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Vol. 6: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Short Plays (1981) — Autore — 36 copie
Suddenly last summer / The milk train doesn't stop here anymore / Small craft warnings (2009) 32 copie
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume 5: The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore/Kingdom of Earth (Theatre of… (1976) 26 copie
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Vol. 7: In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, and Other Plays (1981) 20 copie
The milk train doesn't stop here anymore;: [and], Cat on a hot tin roof (Penguin plays) (1969) 11 copie
Tennessee Williams Selected Plays - The Franklin Library - Jerry Pinkney Illustrations (1977) 10 copie
Iets van Tolstoi 8 copie
Drámák / Williams, Tennessee 5 copie
A streetcar named desire 5 copie
Una gata sobre un tejado de zinc / El análisis perfecto hecho por un loro (Artes escénicas/Obras) (Spanish Edition) (2007) 5 copie
Something Unspoken 4 copie
De repente el último verano / Suddenly the Last Summer: Y Otras Piezas Cortas (Spanish Edition) (2012) 4 copie
Tennessee Williams: Selected Plays, Limited Edition (The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature) (1977) 3 copie
Four plays: The glass menagerie, A streetcar named desire, Summer and smoke, Camino real (1956) 3 copie
Teatro ; Un tranvía llamado deseo ; El zoológico de cristal ; Verano y humo (1951) — Autore — 3 copie
Die Katze auf dem hei en Blechdach ; Die tätowierte Rose : zwei Theaterstücke (1956) — Autore — 3 copie
Three American Plays 3 copie
EL PAIS DEL DRAGÓN — Autore — 2 copie
Η Νύχτα της Ιγκουάνα 2 copie
El manco y otros cuentos 2 copie
Playboy interview 2 copie
The Dark Room 2 copie
Gata em Telhado de Zinco Quente, A Descida de Orfeu e A Noite do Iguana - Colecao Biblioteca Teatral (2016) — Autore — 2 copie
The Case of the Crushed Petunias 2 copie
At Liberty 2 copie
The Mysteries of the Joy Rio 2 copie
Die Glasmenagerie / Endstation Sehnsucht / Die tätowierte Rose / Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach (1999) 2 copie
Dulce pajaro de juventud & Escaleras al techo & El cuaderno de Trigorin/ Sweet Bird of Youth & Stairs to the roof & The… (2004) 2 copie
Théâtre II 2 copie
Portrait of a Madonna — Autore — 2 copie
Der Milchzug halt hier nicht mehr [and] Konigreich auf Erden [The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More and… (1969) 2 copie
The Chalky White Substance 2 copie
En el invierno de las ciudades 1 copia
La Vengeance de Nitocris 1 copia
Dulce pj̀aro de juventud 1 copia
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, 1955 1 copia
Garden District (Program) 1 copia
Mačka na usijanom limenom krovu 1 copia
Orpheus Descending ( 1st/1st ) 1 copia
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Jones 1 copia
La Gata Sobre El Tejado De Zinc 1 copia
Caramelo fundido 1 copia
Cuentos de Tennessee Williams 1 copia
Tennesee Williams: Four Plays 1 copia
KIZGIN DAMDAKİ KEDİ 1 copia
Ausgewählte Dramen 1 copia
Arena 1936 1 copia
Jednorękijednoręki 1 copia
Teatro La camera buia Ritratto di Madonna La lunga permanenza interrotta ovvero una cena poco soddisfacente Proibito Lo… — Autore — 1 copia
Det kan man kalla kärlek 1 copia
Lektürehilfen. A Streetcar Named Desire: Ausführliche Inhaltsangabe mit Interpretation. Inklusive… (2008) 1 copia
A Streetcar Named Desire [1984 TV movie] — Autore — 1 copia
Tutto finito 1 copia
Ausgewählte Dramen: Die Glasmenagerie - Endstation Sehnsucht - Die tätowierte Rose - Die Katze auf dem heißen… (1966) 1 copia
Lord Byron's Love Letter 1 copia
Moony's Kid Don't Cry 1 copia
El país del dragón II 1 copia
Period of Adjustment Movie Cover 1 copia
The Rose Tattoo (film 1 copia
The Glass Managerie, film 1 copia
Tennessee Williams works and bio 1 copia
MÚSICA Y EL MUNDO DE LA RAZÓN 1 copia
Sommerspiel zu dritt Erzählungen 1 copia
The Mattress by the Tomato Patch 1 copia
Snowfall 1 copia
7 Selected Plays 1 copia
Μια γυναίκα που την έλεγαν Μωυσή 1 copia
Un tramvai numit dorinta. Pisica pe acoperisul fierbinte — Autore — 1 copia
Hello From Bertha 1 copia
A ultima primavera 1 copia
Two on a Party {short story} 1 copia
Soudain l'ete dernier 1 copia
Tennessee Williams plays 1 copia
Sweet bird of youth 1 copia
Young men waking at daybreak 1 copia
Θεατρικά ἔργα:… 1 copia
Λεωφορείο ο πόθος 1 copia
Γλυκό πουλί της νιότης 1 copia
Ορφέας στον Άδη 1 copia
Teatro 2. La noche de la iguana - Lo que no se dice - Súbitamente el último verano - Periodo de ajuste. (1966) 1 copia
Tutti i racconti 1 copia
La chatte sur un toit brûlant, suivi de La descente d'Orphée [Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / Orpheus Descending] (2003) — Autore — 1 copia
Un tramway nommé désir [A Streetcar Named Desire] ; Portrait d'une madone [Portrait of a Madona] ; Propriété… — Autore — 1 copia
Lynda Benglis (Brochure) 1976 1 copia
The Catastrophe of Success 1 copia
No Bar de Um Hotel de Tóquio 1 copia
Opere correlate
Riflessi in un occhio d'oro (1941) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni; Postfazione, alcune edizioni — 1,035 copie
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 919 copie
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural: A Treasury of Spellbinding Tales Old & New (1985) — Collaboratore — 522 copie
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Collaboratore — 407 copie
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Collaboratore — 266 copie
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Collaboratore — 183 copie
The Actor's Book of Contemporary Stage Monologues: More Than 150 Monologues from More Than 70 Playwrights (1987) — Collaboratore — 178 copie
Playwrights on Playwriting: The Meaning and Making of Modern Drama from Ibsen to Ionesco (1960) — Collaboratore — 109 copie
The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction (1997) — Collaboratore — 36 copie
Monologues Women: 50 Speeches from the Contemporary Theatre (v. 1) (1976) — Collaboratore — 30 copie
The Tony winners: A collection of ten exceptional plays, winners of the Tony Award for the most distinguished play of… (1977) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Critics' Choice: New York Drama Critics' Circle Prize Plays, 1935-1955 (1945) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Weird Tales Volume 12 Number 2, August 1928 — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Teatro Norteamericano contemporaneo — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Amores de mujer : (de los 15 a los 70 ) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Meesters der vertelkunst : zevenenderdig verhalen uit de moderne wereldliteratuur (1975) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
50 seltsame Geschichten — Collaboratore — 1 copia
32 Współczesne Opowiadania Amerykańskie - Tom I — Collaboratore — 1 copia
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre, Volume 3 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Williams, Tennessee
- Nome legale
- Williams, Thomas Lanier, III
- Data di nascita
- 1911-03-26
- Data di morte
- 1983-02-25
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Columbus, Mississippi, USA
- Luogo di morte
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa della morte
- choking
drug overdose - Luogo di residenza
- Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Key West, Florida, USA
New York, New York, USA - Istruzione
- University of Iowa (BA|1938)
- Attività lavorative
- playwright
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1980)
Kennedy Center Honors (1979)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1944)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1952)
Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1948, 1955)
New York Drama Critics Circle Award (1945, 1948, 1955, 1962) (mostra tutto 11)
American Theater Hall of Fame (1979)
Tony Award for Best Play (1951)
Clarksdale Walk of Fame
St Louis Walk of Fame
Rainbow Honor Walk (2014) - Agente
- Tom Erhardt (Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd) - estate agent
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Five star books (2)
Plays I Like (5)
To Read (1)
Théâtre (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 325
- Opere correlate
- 97
- Utenti
- 28,182
- Popolarità
- #717
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 306
- ISBN
- 697
- Lingue
- 27
- Preferito da
- 131
Per quanto riguarda i protagonisti, avevo già capito leggendo Un tram che si chiama desiderio che Tennessee Williams ha una concezione cinica e quasi nichilista della vita e delle persone, ma mentre in quest'ultimo in mezzo a tanta sgradevolezza riusciamo comunque ad intravedere nei personaggi dei bagliori di umanità ed è ben chiaro chi sia la vera vittima, qui ci muoviamo in mezzo ad esseri anaffettivi e compiaciuti di esserlo, che scambiano la brutalità che sfocia in violenza verbale per sincerità. Non ho provato il minimo palpito di simpatia per nessuno, anzi più andavo avanti a leggere più la mia irritazione cresceva.
La questione dell'omosessualità repressa di Brick è trattata in maniera realistica ed anche coraggiosa per un testo di quegli anni, ma le viene lasciato troppo poco spazio per concentrarsi invece sul rapporto padre-figlio e su altre dinamiche familiari di cui francamente mi importava meno di zero, vista la già dichiarata antipatia che ho nutrito per tutti quanti.
Confesso che ho preferito il film degli anni '50, per quanto edulcorato e censurato; non so se sia merito delle magistrali interpretazioni degli attori o se semplicemente sia stato bravo il regista a smussare gli angoli più ostici dei protagonisti per renderli più amabili.
La mia valutazione finale è una media tra l'ottima qualità letteraria e il mio scarso godimento: promosso, ma con riserva.… (altro)