A Study Guide for Tenessee Williams's ""Orpheus Descending""
Author: Cengage Learning Gale
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9781535830379
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A Study Guide for Tenessee Williams's "Orpheus Descending"
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 23
ISBN-13: 1410354814
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Study Guide for Tenessee Williams's "Orpheus Descending," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Study Guide to the Major Plays of Tennessee Williams
Author: Intelligent Education
Publisher: Influence Publishers
Published: 2020-09-26
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 164542457X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Tennessee Williams, considered to be among the three foremost playwrights of twentieth-century American drama. Titles in this study guide include A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, and The Glass Menagerie. As playwright of the twentieth-century, Tennessee Williams’ plays uncovered a world of grievance in which violence and sex lay just below the surface of romantic glamour. Moreover, his works displayed that simpler times are not always simple, they are simply clearer in hindsight. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Tennessee Williams’ classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons they have stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.
Orpheus Descending
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9780822208655
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →THE STORY: As The New York Times describes, The play tells of a woman storekeeper and a handsome, guileless youth who comes in off the highway. A guitar-player, he is a rural Orpheus who descends to rescue his love--not in Hades, precisely,
Study Guide to The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Author: Intelligent Education
Publisher: Influence Publishers
Published: 2020-06-28
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 1645424170
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Tennessee Williams, whose creative endeavors earned him two Pulitzer Prizes. Titles in this study guide include The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. As an author of southern gothic and memory literature, Williams had a significant impact on theater and has been established as one of America’s most successful playwrights. Moreover, he brought symbolism and poetic language to the stage as his writing evolved. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Williams’ classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons they have stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.
The Glass Menagerie
Author: Tennessee Willams
Publisher: The Anglo Egyptian Bookshop
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Study Guide for Tennessee Williams's "Sweet Bird of Youth"
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 1410359778
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Study Guide for Tennessee Williams's "Sweet Bird of Youth," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams
Author: Greta Heintzelman
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1438108567
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the greatest American dramatists of the 20th century, Tennessee Williams is known for his sensitive characterizations, poetic yet realistic writing, ironic humor, and depiction, of harsh realties in human relationship. His work is frequently included in high school and college curricula, and his plays are continually produced. Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams includes entries on all of Williams's major and minor works, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie, a novel, a collection of short stories, two poetry collections, and personal essays; places and events related to his works; major figures in his life; his literary influences; and issues in Williams scholarship and criticism. Appendixes include a complete list of Williams's works; a list of research libraries with significant Williams holdings; and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
Bloom's How to Write about Tennessee Williams
Author: Jennifer Banach
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1438127677
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers advice on writing essays about the works of Tennessee Williams and lists sample topics.
Four Plays
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: Signet
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 9780451525123
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This anthology contains four of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's most brilliant works: Summer and Smoke, Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer and Period of Adjustment. "The innocent and the damned, the lonely and the frustrated, the hopeful and the hopeless . . . (Williams) brings them all into focus with an earthy, irreverently comic passion".--Newsweek.
