false <![CDATA[The Glass Menagerie]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171248806m/92517.jpg 92517 42 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. 1324493 1945 The Glass Menagerie total:11085|5:2176|4:3744|3:3696|2:1187|1:282| 11085 39600 13092 352 4 2 false false Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 11:13:03 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 11:26:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 2 false false Wed Jan 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 17:57:26 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 07:24:08 -0800 2009 5 1 false false Wed May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 10:14:41 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 14:06:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 19 12:43:03 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 14:18:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 12:51:03 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 04 03:37:32 -0700 2007
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A) Pre-Reading/Anticipatory Thoughts
Most teachers in the secondary English Language Arts classroom that I have observed do not teach plays. Rather, teachers tend to rely on the traditional novel and turn to Shakespeare when teaching a play. While I understand th...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1957 Sat Apr 04 09:57:32 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 21:45:43 -0700 2009 1
The viewing of the teleplay was traumatic, burned int...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 06:38:47 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 07:40:45 -0700 2009 The Glass Menagerie is a painful, tragic tale of dashed hopes and unfulfilled dreams. Tom who writes poetry while working at a warehouse and escapes to the movies. Laura who is shy and fragile as the glass collection she keeps.

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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 the memory of her husband who left her; the ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 19:09:54 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 20:17:30 -0800 2009
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