Tennessee Williams Knihy

E.O´Neill: Ľadár prichádza, T. Wilder - Iba o vlások, T. Williams - Kráľovská cesta, A. Miller - Skúška ohňom

Tennessee Williams: Električka zvaná Túžba Jean Anouilh: Božia česť Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Fyzici John Osborne: Obzri sa v hneve Július Pašteka: Nové obzory súčasného divadla

Tragédie ve třech dějstvích, jejíž symbolickou rovinu tvoří půdorys známého řeckého mýtu, prolínající se Williamsovým příběhem.

Tři divadelní hry amerického dramatika Tennesseeho Williamse: Tramvaj do stanice Touha (1947) — Kočka na rozpálené plechové střeše (1955) — Noc s leguánem (1961).

Povídky o lidech, kteří nedokáží zakotvit v současném chaotickém světě, žijí ve vlastním mikrokosmu a čas má pro ně klíčový význam.

Informationen zur Titelgruppe: In diesem Drama über den Familienstreit um eine Plantage im Mississippi-Delta prangert der Autor Habgier und Verlogenheit an und schildert Frustration und Selbstzerstörung eines Menschen. Informationen zur Reihe: Die Textausgaben der Reihe TAGS enthalten Worterklärungen und zum Teil Fragen, Study Helps und Zusatztexte zu verschiedenen Aspekten der Texte. Die Handreichungen für den Unterricht bieten Interpretationsansätze und geben Anregungen für die Textbehandlung im Unterricht und die Eingliederung in Unterrichtsreihen.

Psychologická novela amerického dramatika zdomácnělého svými hrami i na našich jevištích. V prostředí poživačného Říma rozvíjí příběh stárnoucí ženy, vdovy po americkém milionáři a někdejší herečky, která hnána sexem a touhou přesvědčit se, že dosud vzdoruje přicházejícímustáří, se stane trapnou obětí římského gigola. Doslov napsal Josef Škvorecký.

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams’ essay “The World I Live In.” It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared—57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desireis one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Streetcar launched the careers of Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden, and solidified the position of Tennessee Williams as one of the most important young playwrights of his generation, as well as that of Elia Kazan as the greatest American stage director of the ’40s and ’50s.

Šest povídek představuje Tennessee Williamse českému čtenáři především jako mistra lidské psychiky. Tentokrát jde o příběhy žen, které jsou vystaveny pokušení (jak jinak než ze strany mužů), často mu podléhají a musí se s tím vyrovnat.

Williams' play about drifter Chance Wayne who returns to his hometown with a faded movie star hoping to find the girl of his youth is a classic study of the dream of recapturing youth and finding fame. This edition features an extensive critical commentary and questions aimed at students of the play.

A beautiful clothbound edition of a beloved classic to celebrate the 100th birthday of America s greatest playwright, with a sweeping new introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner.

In these three steamy, exotic dramas Tennessee Williams portrays loss, faded lives and passionate love affairs.

Soubor 7x Tennessee Williams obsahuje jednoaktové hry: Podivný příběh jedné lásky (1946) — Dům na zbourání (1946) — Autodafé (1946) — 27 vagónů bavlny (1953) — Milostný dopis lorda Byrona (1946) — Mluv ke mně jako déšť... (1953) — Cosi nevysloveného (1953). V knížce zařazené aktovky amerického dramatika, pevně zakotveného i na našich divadelních scénách, vznikly vesměs v době jeho dramatických začátků, ale mají už všechny znaky jeho pozdějších vrcholných her. Stejně jako ony nechtějí řešit psychologické problémy jedince, ale snaží se na příběhu několika lidí dobrat se pravdy lidského zážitku, ukázat, že nejsou „ani ničemové, ani hrdinové, nýbrž jen cesty a scestí, kterými se ubírají lidé“.

Divadelní hra o složitém citovém vztahu a střetnutí mravních zásad až puritánské dcery pastora a živočišně bezprostředního lékaře...

Výbor z povídkové tvorby předního amerického dramatika 20. století.

Poněkud bizarní a symbolistická hra amerického dramatika T. Williamse, v níž vystupují nejrůznější postavy, mj. Don Quijote, Casanova a lord Byron.

The book features a series of insightful interviews with the renowned playwright known for his impactful works such as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire, and The Glass Menagerie. These conversations delve into his creative process, the themes of his plays, and his reflections on the theater's role in society. Readers gain a deeper understanding of his artistic vision and the personal experiences that shaped his iconic characters and narratives.

With detailed analysis of the text, discussions on themes, historical backgrounds and author biographies, York Notes offers students the best insight into the world of English Literature.

Recreates the milieux Williams knew and chronicled so movingly--from his gypsy youth in St. Louis and New Orleans to his days of celebrity in Hollywood and New York.

This anthology contains four of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's most brilliant works: Summer and Smoke, Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer and Period of Adjustment. "The innocent and the damned, the lonely and the frustrated, the hopeful and the hopeless . . . (Williams) brings them all into focus with an earthy, irreverently comic passion".--Newsweek.

A collection of four plays from the master of twentieth-century American drama includes Orpheus Descending, in which a nomadic guitar player falls in love with a storekeeper's wife only to find his life plagued by violence when the townspeople turns against them. Original.

Few plays have explored the byways of the human heart as poignantly and poetically as Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. In this touching audio, we meet the embattled Wingfield family: Amanda—faded southern belle, abandoned wife, dominating mother, who hopes to match her daughter with an eligible "gentleman caller;" Laura—lame and painfully shy, she evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to a world of make-believe; Tom—sole support of the family, he eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura. Also included on this audio are priceless recordings of Tennessee Williams bringing his own interpretations to the wistful opening monologue and the tragic ending, as well as to his own brilliantly charming poetry and his uproariously wicked short story, The Yellow Bird.

Tennessee Williams' sensuous portrait of sexual repression is as sultry as the sweltering heat of its Mississippi setting. Alma Winemiller, the sheltered daughter of a minister, secretly harbors a lifelong love for the boy next door, Dr. John Buchanan. Alma seeks a spiritual love with just one man, but the rakish John is focused solely on sexual conquest. Their intense relationship degenerates into a battle for his body and her soul.

1. Cat on a hot roof: the play alludes to the presence of homosexuality in Southern society and examines the complicated rules of social conduct in this culture. 2. The milk train doesn't stop here anymore: geen homorelevantie. 3. The night of the Iguana: Edith Jelkes, an art teacher from Mississippi is travelling to recover from a breakdown. Needing sympathetic companionship, she makes friendly advances to two homosexual American writers and tries to enlist their aid in freeing a captive iguana

- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from "The Odyssey through modern literature- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index- Introductory essay by Harold Bloom

Writing in 1959, at about the time Elia Kazan directed Sweet Bird of Youth on Broadway, Tennessee Williams described his first successful play as being "about as violent as you can get on the stage. During the 19 years since then I have only produced five plays that are not violent". First among them The Glass Menagerie, the memory play which was first presented in London in 1948 and in which he employed every device of scenery, lighting, and music to evoke nostalgia. The following year, he scored one of his biggest successes with A Streetcar named Desire, in which a woman's pathetic fantasies of primness and respectability are stripped down and violently exposed in New Orleans. --back cover

Features Period of adjustement; Summer and Smoke; and Small Craft Warnings. Period of adjustement is about marital problems that surface at Christmas, in a comedy of human foibles and frustrations. Small Craft Warnings is set in a bar on the Californian coast, where a group of people grapple with existence and survival.

Tennessee William's Vieux Carre is not emotion recollected in tranquility but emotion re-created with all the pain, compassion, and wry humor of the playwright's own 1938 sojourn in the New Orleans French Quarter vividly in tact.

Lucy Bailey's adaptation brings a fresh perspective to Tennessee Williams' notorious screenplay, capturing the intense emotions and complex characters that define the original work. The narrative explores themes of desire, desperation, and the human condition, while maintaining the dramatic tension and lyrical dialogue characteristic of Williams' style. This interpretation invites audiences to experience the story anew, highlighting its timeless relevance and emotional depth.

A torrent of memory, longing, and sensuality. The novel revolves around a young writer, infused with autobiographical elements, and a painter in the artist quarter of New York.

Tennessee Williams, America's greatest playwright, openly discusses his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use in this candid reflection. Over thirty years later, his revelations seem less shocking than they once did.

THE STORY: Kerr, in the NY Herald-Tribune, describes: This, says Mr. Williams through the most sympathetic voice among his characters, 'is a true story about the time and the world we live in.' He has made it seem true--or at least curiously and su

Now published for the first time as a trade paperback with a new introduction and the short story on which it was based.

'One of the genre's very few genuinely comic, genuinely incisive writers' THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE

Includes three plays - Suddenly Last Summer, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, and Small Craft Warnings.

Mrs Stone changed from a famous, rich American actress to a notorious, very rich American widow. But the transition took years and all that time her youth and legendary beauty slipped away. Frantic, she decides to take a lover, a young and very handsome Italian, being prepared to invest in his body for good return.

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams.

In this phantasmagorical play, the Camino Real is a dead end, a police state in a vaguely Latin American country, and an inescapable condition. Characters from history and literature―Don Quixote, Casanova, Camille, Lord Byron―inhabit a place where corruption and indifference have immobilized and nearly destroyed the human spirit. Then, into this netherworld, the archetypal Kilroy arrives―a sailor and all-American guy with “a heart as big as the head of baby.” Celebrated American playwright John Guare has written an illuminative Introduction for this edition. Also included are Williams’ original Foreword and Afterword to the play, the one-act play "Ten Blocks on the Camino Real," plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar Michael Paller.

Nach dem Verlust ihres stolzen Familiensitzes flieht Blanche DuBois, eine verblichene Südstaatenschönheit, zu ihrer Schwester Stella, die mit dem Arbeiter Stanley Kowalski verheiratet ist. Dessen aggressive Sexualität stößt Blanche ab. Stanley hasst Blanches affektiertes Verhalten und ihre Traditionsversessenheit. In der Enge der Wohnung im französischen Viertel von New Orleans kommt es schnell zu Spannungen, die in einer Katastrophe münden … Marlon Brando wurde in der Rolle des Stanley Kowalski zu einer Ikone der amerikanischen Männlichkeit. Mit den Beiträgen zu beiden Werken aus Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Mit Daten zu Leben und Werk, exklusiv verfasst von der Redaktion der Zeitschrift für Literatur TEXT + KRITIK.

Dieser Band enthält die beiden Dramen, die den Namen von Tennessee Williams in der Welt berühmt gemacht haben: »Endstation Sehnsucht« und »Die Glasmenagerie«. New Orleans und St. Louis sind die Schauplätze; Exzesse der Sinnlichkeit und der Phantasie stehen in bösem Kontrast zu der drückenden Alltäglichkeit der Südstaatenszenerie. Die meisten Figuren dieses Autors sind labile Charaktere, anfällig für alle Formen der Zerstörung und Selbstzerstörung. Die verborgenen Sehnsüchte und Ängste seiner Zeitgenossen läßt Tennessee Williams wie kaum ein anderer Dramatiker Gestalt gewinnen.

Außer dem letzten, datiert auf 1944, dem Monat, in dem seine Großmutter starb, wurden die Erzählungen von Tennessee Williams, die in „Acht Damen, besessen und sterblich“ versammelt sind, zu Beginn der 1970er Jahre geschrieben. Es sind Stücke der Reife, in denen der Autor scheint, auf die Themen und Charaktere zurückzublicken, die ihn zu einem Klassiker gemacht haben, aus einer bissigen Nostalgie und groteskem Humor. „Wenn man nicht in Flüstern sprechen kann, ist es weise zu schreien“, und diese Weisheit des Schreis prägt das Porträt von acht Frauen, die sich nicht damit abfinden, in der „Verschwörung der Mittelmäßigkeit“ gefangen zu sein, die die Welt ihnen auferlegt, noch in der unüberwindbaren Sterblichkeit, die ihnen das Schicksal auferlegt.

Deutsch von Wolf Christian Schröder und Helmar Harald Fischer. Mit einem Nachwort von Helmar Harald Fischer

Personnages pour "La chatte sur un toit brûlant": 4 femmes, 6 hommes, 5 enfants, figurants.

Enthalten sind die Erzählungen: Der Fluch (The Malediction) Glasporträt eines Mädchens (Portrait of a Girl in Glass) Das Wesentliche (The Important Thing) Das Feld der blauen Kinder (The Field of Blue Children) Sommerspiel zu dritt (Three Players of a Summer Game) Rubio y Morena (Rubio y Morena) Das Tomatenbeet (The Mattress by the Tomato Patch) Der Wein (The Vine) Mamas altes Haus (Mama's Old Stucco House) Oma (\"Grand\") Fröhlicher zehnter August (Happy August the Tenth) Sabbatha und die Einsamkeit (Sabbatha and Solitude)

A Polish translation of short stories by the noted American author.