{"product_id":"9780811225915","title":"Fugitive Kind","description":"\u003cp\u003eSocial outcasts, misfit survivors, dangerous passions—Tennessee Williams fleshed out the characters and themes that would dominate his later work in \u003cem\u003eFugitive Kind\u003c\/em\u003e, one of his earliest plays.  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eFugitive Kind\u003c\/i\u003e, one of Tennessee Williams's earliest plays, is one of his richest in dramatic material. Written in 1937 when the playwright was still Thomas Lanier Williams, \u003ci\u003eFugitive Kind\u003c\/i\u003e introduces the character who will inhabit most of his later plays: the marginal man or woman who, through no personal fault, is a misfit in society but who demonstrates an admirable will to survive. Signature Tennessee Williams' characters, situations, and even the title (which was used as \u003ci\u003eThe Fugitive Kind\u003c\/i\u003e for the 1960 film based on \u003ci\u003eOrpheus Descending\u003c\/i\u003e) have their genesis here. At age twenty-six, Williams was still learning his craft and this, his second full-length play, shows his debt to sources as diverse as thirties gangster films (\u003ci\u003eThe Petrified Forest, Winterset\u003c\/i\u003e) and \u003ci\u003eRomeo and Juliet. Fugitive Kind\u003c\/i\u003e, with its star-crossed lovers and big city slum setting, takes place in a flophouse on the St. Louis waterfront in the shadow of Eads Bridge, where Williams spent Saturdays away from his shoe factory job and met his characters: jobless wayfarers on the dole, young writers and artists of the WPA, even gangsters and G-men. \u003ci\u003eFugitive Kind\u003c\/i\u003e was also Williams's second play to be produced by The Mummers, a St. Louis theatre group devoted to drama of social protest. Called \"vital and absorbing\" by a contemporary review in \u003ci\u003eThe St. Louis Star-Times\u003c\/i\u003e, this play reveals the young playwright's own struggle between his radical-socialist sympathies and his poetic inclinations, and signals his future reputation as our most compassionate lyric dramatist.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118515339504,"sku":"9780811225915","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811225915_p0.jpg?v=1763747380","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811225915","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}