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The Glass Menagerie

No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and 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, the play 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 prominent Williams scholar Robert Bray, editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award: "More than fifty years after telling his story of a family whose lives form a triangle of quiet desperation, Williams's mellifluous voice still resonates deeply and universally." 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." The cover features the classic line drawing by Alvin Lustig, originally done for the 1949 New Directions edition. more

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-29-2009; How Fragile We Are; "If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door." ~Paul Beatty The Glass Menagerie is a classic play of physical and emotional entrapment. The three members of the Wingfield family are all trapped (the mother by her past and...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-13-2009; The Glass Managerie -- It's Your Life; It's a heart-warming story about the stages in life where we are "initiated" into the greater reality of the world around us. Ignore the author's preface -- the main character of the play was escorted across the boundary of personal...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-11-2009; A tragic play of biblical proportions; Along with A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie is a famous play written by Tennessee Williams. Although the play is well-written, I still question the point of it. As I mentioned that the play is a tragic of biblical...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-10-2008; A real gem!; Truly, one of the greatest playwrights, Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, and the most talked about live theatre performance with Lauret Taylor as Amanda Wingefield. In the DVD documentary Broadway - The Golden Age, by the...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-29-2009; How Fragile We Are; "If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door." ~Paul Beatty The Glass Menagerie is a classic play of physical and emotional entrapment. The three members of the Wingfield family are all trapped (the mother by her past and...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-11-2009; A tragic play of biblical proportions; Along with A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie is a famous play written by Tennessee Williams. Although the play is well-written, I still question the point of it. As I mentioned that the play is a tragic of biblical...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-19-2005; great message... not; This play is one of the many "classics" that english teachers and literary critics seem to love; all of these classics have the defining characteristic that they bring out the worst in human nature and undermine the values of hard work,...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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