Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Softcover

Williams, Tennessee; Albee, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811216012 ISBN 13: 9780811216012

Publisher: New Directions, 2004

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: September. 2004 Pages: 208 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first Heated up oadway in 1955 with ITS gothic American story of others vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a whirlwind of withsexuality untethered in. the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sexuality repressed in the agony of her husband. ick Pollitt. In spite of the public controversy Cat stirred up. it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics Circle Award for that year. Williams. as he so often did with his plays. rewrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for many years-the present version was originally produced at the American Shakespeare Festival in 1974 with all the changes that made Williams finally declare the text to be definitive. and was most recently produced on oadway in the 2003-04 season. This definitive ...

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Review:

The introductions, by playwrights as illustrious as Williams himself, are the gem of these new editions.--Ken Furtado

About the Author:

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) is the acclaimed author of many books of letters, short stories, poems, essays, and a large collection of plays, including The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, The Night of the Iguana, and The Rose Tattoo.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0811216012
• ISBN 13: 9780811216012
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 208