Tennessee Williams: Everyone Else Is an Audience Hardcover - 1993
by Ronald Hayman
Few playwrights write as much of their own lives into each work as Tennessee Williams, and few had lives that were so obviously theatrical. Growing up in turmoil among madness and abuse, Williams projected his dramatic personal traumas in plays in which violence exploded into rape, castration, and even cannabalism. 80 illustrations.
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Few playwrights write as much of their lives into every work as did Tennessee Williams, and few had lives that were so obviously theatrical. Growing up amid abusive alcoholism, genteel posturing, and the incipient madness of his beloved sister, Rose, Williams produced plays in which violence exploded into rape, castration, and even cannibalism, projecting dramatic personal traumas. In this frank, compelling study, the distinguished biographer and critic Ronald Hayman explores the intersection of biography and art in one of the most exuberantly autobiographical dramatists of the American theater. By the time he died, in 1983, Williams's reputation had seriously declined. More than twenty years of drug and alcohol addiction, coupled with devastating openness about his promiscuous homosexuality, had all but destroyed one of America's greatest playwrights, while Williams's new works were increasingly unsuccessful. In recent years, however, Broadway revivals and amateur productions have testified to his enduring greatness as one of the shapers of the American theater. The major plays, such as The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire, never disappeared from American theatrical consciousness. Their heroes - Tom Wingfield, Brick Pollitt, even Blanche Du Bois - are portraits of the artist as a very troubled man. Hayman explores the life and writings of Tennessee Williams and shows how they were linked. More than any previous biographer, he unmasks the compulsive, driven man behind the characters and lays bare the pain that engendered Williams's violent apocalypses. Tennessee Williams will change the way lovers of drama experience and understand some of its finestachievements.
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- Title Tennessee Williams: Everyone Else Is an Audience
- Author Ronald Hayman
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven And London
- Date 1993-10-01
- ISBN 9780300054149 / 0300054149
- Weight 1.68 lbs (0.76 kg)
- Dimensions 9.53 x 6.45 x 1.04 in (24.21 x 16.38 x 2.64 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Williams, Tennessee, Dramatists, American - 20th century -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93024544
- Dewey Decimal Code 812.54
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Citations
- Booklist, 03/01/1994, Page 1176
- Kirkus Reviews, 01/01/1994, Page 39
- Library Journal, 02/01/1994, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 01/24/1994, Page 46
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