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Neuware -Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (plays not included). Pages: 34. Chapters: A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Rose Tattoo, List of one-act plays by Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie, Camino Real, The Night of the Iguana, Spring Storm, Sweet Bird of Youth, Summer and Smoke, Suddenly, Last Summer, The Two-Character Play, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, Not About Nightingales, In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, A House Not Meant to Stand, Clothes for a Summer Hotel, Vieux Carré, Stairs to the Roof, Orpheus Descending, Something Cloudy, Something Clear, Period of Adjustment, The Seven Descents of Myrtle, Small Craft Warnings, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, The Red Devil Battery Sign, The Notebook of Trigorin, This Is, The Traveling Companion and Other Plays, Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis , Fugitive Kind, Out Cry. Excerpt: Thomas Lanier 'Tennessee' Williams III (March 26, 1911 ¿ February 25, 1983) was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs. His professional career lasted from the mid 1930s until his death in 1983, and saw the creation of many plays that are regarded as classics of the American stage. Williams adapted much of his best known work for the cinema. Williams received virtually all of the top theatrical awards for his works of drama, including a Tony Award for best play for The Rose Tattoo (1951) and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire (1948) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). In 1980 he was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter and is today acknowledged as one of the most accomplished playwrights in the history of English speaking theater. Theater scholar Charlotte Canning, of the University of Texas at Austin where William's archives are located, has said, 'There is no more influential 20th-century American playwright than Tennessee Williams. He inspired future generations of writers as diverse as Suzan-Lori Parks, Tony Kushner, David Mamet and John Waters, and his plays remain among the most produced in the world.' Thomas Lanier Williams III was born of Welsh and Huguenot descent, in Columbus, Mississippi, the second child of Edwina and Cornelius Williams. His grandfather, Walter Dakin, was the local Episcopal priest, and his maternal grandmother, Rose O. Dakin, was a music teacher. His father was a hard-drinking traveling shoe salesman who spent most of his time away from home. His mother, Edwina, was an archetype of the ¿Southern belle¿, whose social aspirations tilted toward snobbery and whose behavior could be neurotic and hysterical. Shortly after his birth, his grandfather Dakin was assigned to a parish in Clarksdale, Mississippi and Williams' early childhood was spent in the paBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 34 pp. Englisch.
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