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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays
- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from "The Odyssey through modern literature- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index- Introductory essay by Harold Bloom
Paperback, 144 pages
Published
March 5th 2009
by Penguin
(first published 1955)
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Last year, I read Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and I thought it was amazing! Although a mature book, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is interesting and reminds me of everyday life. The book was written in play form, so it was like I was actually observing this ongoing conversation. Throughout the book, there were many life lessons in between. The big take away I got was to do what makes you happy because if you try to please others then you won't be content with yourself. I would recommend this book to anyone be...more
I've never been a fan of the fallen Southern family genre but Williams knows how to draw interesting characters. The only trouble is they belabor their problems without any revelation or charater development. I makes me want to drink until I hear the 'click' that Brick rambles on about. But it will be interesting to see the new all-black cast of 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' in London...
Intense and dramatic! I love his plays. Once you start reading you can't stop.
The cat refers to a particular fantasy of femininity and feminine desire. The play's primary cat is Maggie, a typically hysterical, dissatisfied Williams heroine who prostrates herself before Brick. Maggie's loneliness has made her a "cat," hard, anxious, and bitter. The exhilaration of Williams's dramaturgy lies in the force of the audience's identification with this heroine, a woman desperate in her sense of lack, masochistically bound to man who does not want her, and made all the more beaut...more
در صورت تمایل، جهت مشخصات فیلمی که بر اساس این کتاب ساخته شده است؛ میتوانید از لینک زیر استفاده بفرمایید
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Tin roof not one of my favorite Williams plays, but the final scene in the movie between Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman is the hottest thing you've ever seen.
Fantastic - wonderful to analyse!
The mood is perfect.
The mood is perfect.
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Thomas Lanier Williams III, better known by the nickname Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright of the twentieth century who received many of the top theatrical awards for his work. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee," the state of his father's birth. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948 and for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...more
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“--- What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? --- I wish I knew ...
Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can ...
[More croquet sounds]
Later tonight I'm going to tell you I love you an' maybe by that time you'll be drunk enough to believe me. Yes, they're playing croquet ...
Big Daddy is dying of cancer ...
What were you thinking of when I caught you looking at me like that? Were you thinking of Skipper?
[Brick crosses to the bar, takes a quick drink, and rubs his head with a towel]
Laws of silence don't work ...
When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant ....
Get dressed, Brick.”
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Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can ...
[More croquet sounds]
Later tonight I'm going to tell you I love you an' maybe by that time you'll be drunk enough to believe me. Yes, they're playing croquet ...
Big Daddy is dying of cancer ...
What were you thinking of when I caught you looking at me like that? Were you thinking of Skipper?
[Brick crosses to the bar, takes a quick drink, and rubs his head with a towel]
Laws of silence don't work ...
When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant ....
Get dressed, Brick.”
“Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn't love you.”
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