STOPPED ROCKING; and other screenplays

WILLIAMS, Tennessee

ISBN 10: 0811209016 / ISBN 13: 9780811209014

Edité par New Directions, NY, 1984

A propos de cet article

8vo, pp. 384. Introduction by Richard Gilman. Some foxing on edges, o/w a nice copy in dj. The other scripts are All Gaul Is Divided, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, and One Arm.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: STOPPED ROCKING; and other screenplays
• Éditeur: New Directions, NY
• Date de parution: 1984
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0811209016
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780811209014
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette

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Synopsis

Written at various times over the last twenty-five years but never produced, the four scripts included in Tennessee Williams's Stopped Rocking and Other Screenplays encompass both the realistic style of "the early Williams" (the author's quotes) and the more experimental dramatic devices of many of his "later" plays. Two screenplays from the fifties, All Gaul Is Divided and The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, remained in the files of Williams's New Orleans apartment until a thorough cleaning uncovered them in the mid-seventies. Thus, All Gaul, an expanded version of the story of a St. Louis teacher's dreams of love told in A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (1978) actually predates that play. A companion piece in mood and style, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond lyrically evokes the late twenties debutante society of Memphis and the Delta plantations. Adapted from the graphic short story of the same name, One Arm concerns a young male hustler awaiting execution for murder. Because much of the visual action is combined with a voice-over narration, Williams considered the form of this "film-play" from the late sixties somewhat experimental. In Stopped Rocking (1977), Williams returns to a familiar theme, the institution as the last haven of those who cannot cope with daily conflict and have "resigned from life." He was confident that this play, like so many of his others, would eventually find its audience: "I know that the 'dark' of the work is more than balanced by its humanity, and that this light of humanity will tip the balance favorably, as a natural act of grace."

À propos de l'auteur

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was America's most influential playwright. Readers have devoured his poetry, essays, short stories, and letters, as well as his fantastic late plays, his remarkable corpus of one-acts, and his greatest plays--The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Night of the Iguana, The Rose Tattoo, Suddenly Last Summer, and Camino Real. Williams is a cornerstone of New Directions--we publish everything he wrote. He is also our single bestselling author.