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The Glass Menagerie

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An edition of The Glass Menagerie (1945)

The Glass Menagerie

Reset edition; 6th printing

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  • 153 Want to read
  • 8 Currently reading
  • 38 Have read

No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. As Williams's first popular success, it launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career, of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, Menagaerie has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the world.

The Glass Menagerie (in the reading text the author preferred) is now available only in its New Directions Paperbook edition. A new introduction by the editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, Robert Bray, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. This edition of The Glass Menagerie also includes Williams's essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, "The Catastrophe of Success," as well as a short section of Williams's own "Production Notes."
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New Directions
Language
English
Pages
105

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memory plays, autobiographical drama, Family, American drama, Fiction, Drama, open_syllabus_project, Young men, Human relations, Brothers and sisters, Mothers and sons, Families, Young women with disabilities, Mothers and daughters, domestic drama, Interpersonal relations, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, American drama (dramatic works by one author), Saint Louis (Mo.), Plays, Play, Criticism and interpretation, Glass menagerie (Williams, Tennessee), Young men--missouri--saint louis--drama, Families--missouri--saint louis--drama, Young men--drama, Saint louis (mo.)--drama, Ps3545.i5365 g5 1999, 812/.54, Children's plays
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Amanda Wingfield, Laura Wingfield, Tom Wingfield, Jim O'Connor
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The Glass Menagerie
2000, Methuen Drama
Paperback in English - Methuen Student Edition
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The Glass Menagerie
1999, New Directions
Paperback in English - Reset edition; 6th printing
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The Glass Menagerie (Heinemann Plays)
April 9, 1996, Heinemann Educational Publishers
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Glass Menagerie (Penguin Plays & Screenplays)
January 1988, Penguin USA (P)
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The Glass Menagerie
1987-10, New American Library
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The Glass Menagerie
1987-10, New American Library, Signet
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The Glass Menagerie
1987 10, Signet
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The Glass Menagerie
1976, Dramatists Play Service Inc.
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The Glass Menagerie
1970, The New Classics
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The Glass Menagerie
1970, The New Classics
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New York, USA

Edition Notes

Genre
Drama
Copyright Date
1999

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
812/.54
Library of Congress
PS3545.I5365 G5 1999, PS3545.I5365G5 1999, PS3545.I5365

Contributors

Introduction
Robert Bray

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
xxii, 105 p. ;
Number of pages
105

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23243494M
Internet Archive
glassmenagerie00will_0
ISBN 10
0811214044
ISBN 13
9780811214049
LCCN
98054624
OCLC/WorldCat
246183338
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0811214044
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0811214044
Google
tWbVwZjv43kC
Library Thing
34387
Goodreads
92517

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The Glass Menagerie was Tennessee Williams's first great popular success. It won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and enjoyed a long Broadway run with the incomparable Laurette Taylor in the starring role. Since then it has become one of the most-performed plays in the repertory of American community theaters.

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