Book Description
The eighth volume of Tennessee Williams's collected plays - for the first time in paperback. Contains the following four plays: • Vieux Carré: " Williams is completely in control here."—London Times • A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur: "Collections should include this view of a lady who does not despair, in order to have the full picture of his prismatic Southern heroines."—Library Journal • Clothes for a Summer Hotel: "A masterpiece utterly original, freshly imagined in style and substance."—Choice • The Red Devil Battery Sign: "It is essential Williams."—English Studies The Theatre of Tennessee Williams presents, in matching format, the plays of one of America's most consistently influential and innovative dramatists. Now available as a paperback, Volume VIII adds to the series four full-length plays written and produced during the last decade of Williams' life, including original cast listings and production notes. The text used for each play was corrected and revised by the playwright in preparation for publication, or, in the case of the posthumously published Red Devil Battery Sign, makes use of his last known revision.


About the Author
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was born in Columbus, Mississippi. His first real recognition came in 1940 with a Rockefeller fellowship and his first play, Battle of Angels, was produced by the Theatre Guild in Boston. The Glass Menagerie was the initial success which established him as one of the leading American playwrights. Many of his plays have been produced on television and made into movies and ballets —A Streetcar Named Desire, Summer and Smoke, Night of the Iguana, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and The Glass Menagerie, to name a few—provided vehicles for Jessica Tandy, Marlon Brando, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Burton, Burl Ives, and many other stars. In the course of his career he received two Pulitzer Prizes (for A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) and four New York Drama Critic's Circle Awards, and in 1969, was awarded the Gold Medal for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams presents, in matching format, the plays of one of America's most consistently influential and innovative dramatists. The first five volumes of this ongoing series contain Williams's full-length plays through 1975 and, in addition to the texts themselves, include original cast listings and production notes. Volumes 6 and 7 contain Williams's collected shorter plays.