Tennessee Williams

Sweet Bird of Youth and Other Plays

Ed. by E. Martin Browne

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Chance Wayne kehrt in seine Heimatstadt zurück. Begleitet wird er von einem verblassten Filmstar, Prinzessin Kosmonopolis, die ihm beim Durchbruch in die Schauspielerei helfen will. Doch der eigentliche Grund für seine Rückkehr ist ein anderer: Er will zurück, was er in seiner Jugend einst besaß. Insbesondere seine alte Liebe, deren Vater, der Sheriff, ihn damals aus der Stadt jagte ...

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Includes three plays - "Sweet Bird of Youth", "Period of Adjustment", and "Period of Adjustment". In "Sweet Bird of Youth", Chance Wayne returns to his home town with an ageing movie actress in search of the girl he loved in his youth, but with terrible, violent results.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Modern Classics
• Verlag: Penguin UK
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 225g
• ISBN-13: 9780141191089
• ISBN-10: 0141191082
• Artikelnr.: 26112828

Autorenporträt

Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing. He entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great diversity. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published The Glass Menagerie (1944), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Summer and Smoke (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real(1953), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Orpheus Descending (1957), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), Period of Adjustment (1960), The Night of the Iguana (1961), The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963; revised 1964) and Small Craft Warnings (1972). He died in 1983.