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By Stephen Bottoms,Philip Kolin,Michael Hooper,Katherine Weiss

ISBN-10: 147252182X

ISBN-13: 9781472521828

ISBN-10: 1472521862

ISBN-13: 9781472521866

A pupil guide to the performs of Tennessee Williams presents the fundamental consultant to Williams' so much studied and revived dramas. Authored by means of a staff of top students, it deals scholars a transparent research and designated statement on 4 of Williams' plays: The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a scorching Tin Roof and Sweet fowl of Youth. A constant framework of research guarantees that no matter if readers are short of a precis of the play, a observation at the issues or characters, or a dialogue of the paintings in functionality, they could with no trouble locate what they should enhance their figuring out and reduction their appreciation of Williams' artistry.

A chronology of the writer's lifestyles and paintings is helping to situate all his works in context and the creation reinforces this by way of delivering a transparent evaluate of Williams' writing, its recurrent topics and matters and the way those are intertwined together with his lifestyles and occasions. for every play the writer offers a precis of the plot, via statement on:
* The context
* Themes
* Characters
* constitution and language
* The play in creation (both on degree and reveal adaptations)
Questions for learn, and notes on phrases and words within the textual content also are provided to help the reader.

The wealth of authoritative and transparent observation on every one play, including additional questions that inspire comparability throughout Williams' paintings and comparable performs by means of different best writers, guarantees that this can be the clearest and fullest consultant to Williams' maximum plays.

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A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Sweet Bird of Youth by Stephen Bottoms,Philip Kolin,Michael Hooper,Katherine Weiss


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