{"product_id":"9781883011864","title":"Tennessee Williams: Plays 1937-1955","description":"Tennessee Williams's explosive, often violent, plays shattered conventional proprieties and transformed the American stage. They inspired some of the most famous productions and performances in theatrical and film history, and they continue to grip audiences all over the world. Now, in an authoritative two-volume edition, The Library of America collects the plays that define Williams's extraordinary range and achievement. This first volume begins with the stunning rediscovered plays of Williams's early career: \u003ci\u003eSpring Storm\u003c\/i\u003e, a tragedy of provincial longing that prefigures the mood and language of his later work, and \u003ci\u003eNot About Nightingales\u003c\/i\u003e, a stark prison drama, produced in 1998 to international acclaim, that resounds with the playwright's outraged idealism. With the autobiographical \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Menagerie \u003c\/i\u003ein 1944, Williams attained what he later called \"the catastrophe of success,\" a success made all the greater by \u003ci\u003eA Streetcar Named Desire\u003c\/i\u003e, his most famous play and one of the most influential works of modern American literature.\u003cp\u003eForging an idiom that uniquely blended lyricism and brutality, a tragic sense of life and a genius for comic observation, he continued to revolutionize the American theater with a series of masterpieces: the poignant and melancholy \u003ci\u003eSummer and Smoke\u003c\/i\u003e, the light-hearted erotic comedy \u003ci\u003eThe Rose Tattoo\u003c\/i\u003e, the sprawling and surrealistic \u003ci\u003eCamino Real,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCat on a Hot Tin Roof\u003c\/i\u003e, the Pulitzer Prize–winning portrayal of a ruthless family struggle. This volume also contains \u003ci\u003eBattle of Angels\u003c\/i\u003e (an early version of \u003ci\u003eOrpheus Descending\u003c\/i\u003e), and a selection of Williams's one-act plays, including \u003ci\u003e27 Wagons Full of Cotton\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Property Is Condemned\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eI Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix\u003c\/i\u003e, a meditation on the life and work of D. H. Lawrence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition includes a newly researched chronology of Tennessee Williams's life, explanatory notes (including cast lists of many of the original productions), and an essay on the texts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039749095664,"sku":"9781883011864","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781883011864_p0.jpg?v=1763604479","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781883011864","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}