Tennessee Williams (1911–1983)
Autor de Un tranvía llamado deseo
Sobre El Autor
After O'Neill, Williams is perhaps the best dramatist the United States has yet produced. Born in his grandfather's rectory in Columbus, Mississippi, Williams and his family later moved to St. Louis. There Williams endured many bad years caused by the abuse of his father and his own anguish over mostrar más his introverted sister, who was later permanently institutionalized. Williams attended the University of Missouri, and, after time out to clerk for a shoe company and for his own mental breakdown, also attended Washington University of St. Louis and the University of Iowa, from which he graduated in 1938. Williams began to write plays in 1935. During 1943 he spent six months as a contract screenwriter for MGM but produced only one script, The Gentleman Caller. When MGM rejected it, Williams turned it into his first major success, The Glass Menagerie (1945). In this intensely autobiographical play, Williams dramatizes the story of Amanda, who dreams of restoring her lost past by finding a gentleman caller for her crippled daughter, and of Amanda's son Tom, who longs to escape from the responsibility of supporting his mother and sister. After The Glass Menagerie,Williams wrote his masterpiece, A Streetcar Named Desire, (1947), along with a steady stream of other plays, among them such major works as Summer and Smoke(1948), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1954), and Suddenly Last Summer (1958). His plays celebrate the "fugitive kind," the sensitive outcasts whose outsider status allows them to perceive the horror of the world and who often give additional witness to that horror by becoming its victims. Stephen S. Stanton has summed up Williams's "virtues and strengths" as "a genius for portraiture, particularly of women, a sensitive ear for dialogue and the rhythms of natural speech, a comic talent often manifesting itself in "black comedy,' and a genuine theatrical flair exhibited in telling stage effects attained through lighting, costume, music, and movements." After The Night of the Iguana (1961), Williams continued to write profusely---and constantly to revise his work---but it became more difficult to get productions of his plays and, if they were produced, to win critical or popular acclaim for them. Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for these two and for The Glass Menagerie and The Night of the Iguana. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Tennessee Williams. UH Photographs Collection.
Series
Obras de Tennessee Williams
Summer and Smoke / Orpheus Descending / Suddenly Last Summer / Period of Adjustment (1976) 458 copias, 3 reseñas
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore / The Night of the Iguana (1990) 257 copias, 1 reseña
Five O'clock Angel: Letters of Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just, 1948-1982 (1990) 70 copias, 1 reseña
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume 2: Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Summer and Smoke, The Rose Tattoo, Camino… (1971) 60 copias
The Glass Menagerie / A Streetcar Named Desire / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / Suddenly Last Summer (1955) 47 copias
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Vol. 6: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Short Plays (1981) — Autor — 37 copias
Suddenly last summer / The milk train doesn't stop here anymore / Small craft warnings (2009) 31 copias, 1 reseña
The Notebook of Trigorin: A Free Adaptation of Anton Chekhov's the Sea Gull (1997) 30 copias, 1 reseña
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume 5: The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore/Kingdom of Earth (Theatre of… (1976) 27 copias
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Vol. 7: In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, and Other Plays (1981) 21 copias
The milk train doesn't stop here anymore;: [and], Cat on a hot tin roof (Penguin plays) (1969) 11 copias
Tennessee Williams Selected Plays - The Franklin Library - Jerry Pinkney Illustrations (1977) 10 copias
Iets van Tolstoi 8 copias
Una gata sobre un tejado de zinc / El análisis perfecto hecho por un loro (Artes escénicas/Obras) (Spanish Edition) (2007) 6 copias
A streetcar named desire 5 copias
Drámák / Williams, Tennessee 5 copias
Something Unspoken 4 copias
De repente el último verano / Suddenly the Last Summer: Y Otras Piezas Cortas (Spanish Edition) (2012) 4 copias
Teatro ; Un tranvía llamado deseo ; El zoológico de cristal ; Verano y humo (1953) — Autor — 3 copias
Four plays: The glass menagerie, A streetcar named desire, Summer and smoke, Camino real (1956) 3 copias
Three American Plays 3 copias
Die Katze auf dem hei en Blechdach ; Die tätowierte Rose : zwei Theaterstücke (1956) — Autor — 3 copias
Tennessee Williams: Selected Plays, Limited Edition (The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature) (1977) 3 copias
three plays of tennessee williams 2 copias
El manco y otros cuentos 2 copias
EL PAIS DEL DRAGÓN — Autor — 2 copias
The Case of the Crushed Petunias 2 copias
Gata em Telhado de Zinco Quente, A Descida de Orfeu e A Noite do Iguana - Colecao Biblioteca Teatral (2016) — Autor — 2 copias
Theatre of Tennessee Williams, The 2 copias
The Dark Room 2 copias
Dulce pajaro de juventud & Escaleras al techo & El cuaderno de Trigorin/ Sweet Bird of Youth & Stairs to the roof & The… (2004) 2 copias
Η Νύχτα της Ιγκουάνα 2 copias
Die Glasmenagerie / Endstation Sehnsucht / Die tätowierte Rose / Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach (1999) 2 copias
Playboy interview 2 copias
The Mysteries of the Joy Rio 2 copias
Théâtre II 2 copias
The Last of My Solid Gold Watches 2 copias
At Liberty 2 copias
Portrait of a Madonna — Autor — 2 copias
The Chalky White Substance 2 copias
Der Milchzug halt hier nicht mehr [and] Konigreich auf Erden [The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More and… (1969) 2 copias
A Streetcar Named Desire [1984 TV movie] — Autor — 1 copia
Dulce pj̀aro de juventud 1 copia
Caramelo fundido 1 copia
Orpheus Descending ( 1st/1st ) 1 copia
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, 1955 1 copia
Mačka na usijanom limenom krovu 1 copia
Garden District (Program) 1 copia
Moony's Kid Don't Cry 1 copia
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Jones 1 copia
KIZGIN DAMDAKİ KEDİ 1 copia
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof {1976 TV movie} — Autor — 1 copia
Jednorękijednoręki 1 copia
Arena 1936 1 copia
Ausgewählte Dramen 1 copia
I 'blues' 1 copia
La Vengeance de Nitocris 1 copia
South 1 copia
Sommerspiel Zu Dritt 1 copia
La Gata Sobre El Tejado De Zinc 1 copia
En el invierno de las ciudades 1 copia
Soudain l'ete dernier 1 copia
Un tramvai numit dorinta. Pisica pe acoperisul fierbinte — Autor — 1 copia
Two on a Party {short story} 1 copia
Period of Adjustment Movie Cover 1 copia
7 Selected Plays 1 copia
A ultima primavera 1 copia
Cuentos de Tennessee Williams 1 copia
Hello From Bertha 1 copia
Snowfall 1 copia
Tennesee Williams: Four Plays 1 copia
Det kan man kalla kärlek 1 copia
Lektürehilfen. A Streetcar Named Desire: Ausführliche Inhaltsangabe mit Interpretation. Inklusive… (2008) 1 copia
Tutto finito 1 copia
Ausgewählte Dramen: Die Glasmenagerie - Endstation Sehnsucht - Die tätowierte Rose - Die Katze auf dem heißen… (1966) 1 copia
Lynda Benglis (Brochure) 1976 1 copia
Lord Byron's Love Letter 1 copia
Teatro La camera buia Ritratto di Madonna La lunga permanenza interrotta ovvero una cena poco soddisfacente Proibito Lo… — Autor — 1 copia
Tennessee Williams plays 1 copia
Young men waking at daybreak 1 copia
Teatro 2. La noche de la iguana - Lo que no se dice - Súbitamente el último verano - Periodo de ajuste. (1966) 1 copia
Μια γυναίκα που την έλεγαν Μωυσή 1 copia
La chatte sur un toit brûlant, suivi de La descente d'Orphée [Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / Orpheus Descending] (2003) — Autor — 1 copia
Tutti i racconti 1 copia
Ορφέας στον Άδη 1 copia
Γλυκό πουλί της νιότης 1 copia
Λεωφορείο ο πόθος 1 copia
Θεατρικά ἔργα:… 1 copia
Sweet bird of youth 1 copia
Un tramway nommé désir [A Streetcar Named Desire] ; Portrait d'une madone [Portrait of a Madona] ; Propriété… — Autor — 1 copia
The Glass Managerie, film 1 copia
The Mattress by the Tomato Patch 1 copia
Sommerspiel zu dritt Erzählungen 1 copia
MÚSICA Y EL MUNDO DE LA RAZÓN 1 copia
Tennessee Williams works and bio 1 copia
The Rose Tattoo (film 1 copia
The Catastrophe of Success 1 copia
El país del dragón II 1 copia
No Bar de Um Hotel de Tóquio 1 copia
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Williams, Tennessee
- Nombre legal
- Williams, Thomas Lanier, III
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1911-03-26
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1983-02-25
- Lugar de sepultura
- Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Columbus, Mississippi, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- choking
drug overdose - Lugares de residencia
- Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Key West, Florida, USA
New York, New York, USA - Educación
- University of Iowa (BA|1938)
- Ocupaciones
- playwright
- Premios y honores
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1980)
Kennedy Center Honors (1979)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1944)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1952)
Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1948, 1955)
New York Drama Critics Circle Award (1945, 1948, 1955, 1962) (mostrar todos 11)
American Theater Hall of Fame (1979)
Tony Award for Best Play (1951)
Clarksdale Walk of Fame
St Louis Walk of Fame
Rainbow Honor Walk (2014) - Agente
- Tom Erhardt (Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd) - estate agent
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