Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright. Along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.
After years of obscurity, he became suddenly famous with The Glass Menagerie (1944), a play that closely reflected his own unhappy family background. This heralded a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), and Sweet Bird of Youth (1959). His later work attempted a new style that did not appeal to audiences, and alcohol and drug dependence further inhibited his creative output. His drama A Streetcar Named Desire is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Much of Williams' most acclaimed work was adapted for the cinema. He also wrote short stories, poetry, essays and a volume of memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura, her shy crippled daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories. Amanda is desperate to find her daughter a husband, but when the long-awaited gentleman caller does arrive, Laura's romantic illusions are crushed.
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"....Security is a kind of death, I think, and it can come to you in a storm of royalty checks besides a kidney-shaped pool in Beverly Hill or anywhere at all that is removed from the conditions that made you an artist, if that's what you are or were or int...
評分I read this book during the winter vacations for one or two days and I found myself extremely depressed after I finished it. It is a book that keeps haunting your mind for days. It expresses the surface vivacity of life with the underlying strain of immutab...
評分 評分圖書標籤: TennesseeWilliams 戲劇 英文原版 美國 美國文學 外國文學 田納西·威廉姆斯 Tennessee_Williams
田納西威廉斯,一個喜歡用gay來錶達快樂意思的劇作傢。 獨角獸的角碎掉那場戲差點看哭瞭,真是又勵誌又惆悵。
評分這本描寫的傢庭關係要比A Streetcar Named Desire要讓我痛苦,因為Amanda對兒子女兒的束縛和期望讓人窒息,三人都在逃避現實,互相摺磨,這種傢庭關係要比Blanche的崩潰更有實感。而且Jim對自卑敏感的Laura的溫柔和善解人意之後在對其的打擊真是……令人絕望,不知道Laura最後會怎樣;還有Tom那句:People go to the movies instead of moving. 最後Tom還是選擇跟父親一樣瞭啊
評分老實說我無法對Tom喜歡起來
評分再也迴不去的南方種植園、成群的黑奴和老派的作風;看電影作為逃避現實的手段;蠟燭和現代照明的不同象徵;玻璃的象徵貫穿始終,從或透明或模糊的布景,到女兒的飾品,再到結尾都市的街邊櫥窗;母親從一開始諱言女兒的跛足,到幻滅後脫口而齣,如弗洛伊德式的禁忌:打破禁忌的欲望早已暗藏於潛意識中。
評分一般,遠遠比不上讀的上兩本田納西精彩,比較平實,唯一亮眼的是摔斷角的獨角獸,"Is it broken?" "Now it is just like all the other horses."
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