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The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

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Author Biography

Name: Tennessee Williams
Variant Name: Thomas Lanier Williams
Birth Date: March 26, 1911
Death Date: February 25, 1983
Place of Birth: Columbus, Mississippi, United States
Place of Death: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: dramatist, playwright, writer

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Biography of Tennessee Williams
803 words, approx. 2.7 pages
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), dramatist and fiction writer, was one of America's major mid-20th-century playwrights. Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams in Columbus, Mississippi, on March 26, 1911. Interestingly enough, he originally lie...
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Biography of Tennessee Williams
20972 words, approx. 69.9 pages
Tennessee Williams's playwriting career spanned more than four decades and was marked by the highest acclaim, as well as the kind of critical controversy that is generated only by one whose achievements have been widely recognized and lauded. This recogn...
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Biography of Tennessee Williams
20092 words, approx. 67 pages
Tennessee Williams's playwriting career, already spanning more than four decades, has been marked by the highest acclaim, as well as the kind of critical controversy that is generated only by one whose achievements have been widely recognized and lauded....
 


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The Glass Menagerie Summary
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Tennessee Williams's 1944 drama The Glass Menagerie, his self-described "memory play," has been considered a classic of the American Theatre since its debut. The play is Tom Wingfield's reminiscence of his youth living in a...
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The Glass Menagerie Summary
5,519 words, approx. 18 pages
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams in Columbus, Mississippi, on March 26, 1911, to Cornelius Coffin, a traveling shoe salesman, and Edwina Dakin Williams, the well-bred daughter of a southern...
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The Glass Menagerie Information
2,061 words, approx. 7 pages
The Glass Menagerie is a play by Tennessee Williams. The play premiered in Chicago in 1944, and in 1945 won the prestigious New York Drama Critics Circle Award. The Glass Menagerie was Williams's first successful play; he went on to become one of...


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The New York Observer
Big Broadway Revivals Pack the Stage With Stars
3/6/2005: 704 words, approx. 2 pages
Prestige revivals mark this spring's theater season, with several potentially bankable classics opening on Broadway in the next month. Among the most anticipated are Tennessee Williams' Southern dramas The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. Both productions, with star-studded and surprising casts, will attempt...
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Today in History - Dec. 26
12/26/2006: 602 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Tuesday, Dec. 26, the 360th day of 2006. There are five days left in the year. The seven-day African-American holiday Kwanzaa begins today. This is Boxing Day.Today's Highlight in History:On Dec. 26, 2004, more than 200,000 people, mostly in southern Asia, were killed...
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The New York Observer
Crikey! Brits Invade Again And All Kneel in Adoration
5/15/2005: 1,473 words, approx. 5 pages
Devoted readers of this column will need no reminder that the last thing I am is an Anglophile. In the way that we all have complicated relationships with places and people we've left, I've been hating the British for years.Born in England, I came to...
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Guthrie Theater aims to please
5/17/2007: 927 words, approx. 3 pages
Come for a play. Stay for the ambiance.That's what Joe Dowling, the artistic director of the Guthrie Theater, wants people to do at the shimmering new $125 million complex, a huge space with a fine-dining restaurant, a cafe, 11 bars and its own viewing platform...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Eric P. Levy
3,218 words, approx. 11 pages
In the following essay, Levy explores the significance of mirrors as a symbol for superficial appearances and fragile self-image in The Glass Menagerie.
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Critical Essay by James Reynolds
2,259 words, approx. 8 pages
In the following essay, Reynolds discusses the significance of modern technology in The Glass Menagerie, which he views as a commentary on progress and the effect of technology on the individual and society.
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Critical Essay by Gerald Weales
577 words, approx. 2 pages
The final image in The Glass Menagerie is that of Laura, alone, illuminated by the candles which, for all that they are the Gentleman Caller's "favorite kind of light," will bring no warmth to the girl…. The quiet, almost sentimental quality of that final speech, of the play as a whole, masks the fact that Menagerie ends with the starkest picture of loneliness in the Williams canon. The heroines who follow tend to have more Amanda than Laura in them. The specter of separateness h...
 
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Tennessee Williams: His Life in "Suddenly Last Summer" and "The Glass Menagerie"
3,622 words, approx. 12 pages
Essay shows the biographical connections of Tennessee Williams in "Suddenly Last Summer" and "The Glass Menagerie."
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The Glass Menagerie, A Production Analysis
1,984 words, approx. 7 pages
Examines the play, The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams. Discusses what effects its visual and musical effects have upon the play. Uses Williams' production notes as a starting point to consider Williams' use of stage directions, music and unusual effects in the play.
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Repetition of Themes and Characters in Tennessse Williams's Works
1,952 words, approx. 7 pages
Tennessee Williams reused plot lines and characters from his early and best play, "The Glass Menagerie," to produce his later works, such as "A Streetcar Named Desire." Most of the changes involved villanious characters becoming more outrageous.
 


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