The glass menagerie book

In Tennessee Williams’ poignant and touching play The Glass Menagerie, we are introduced to the Wingfield Family—Amanda, Tom, Laura and the absent father who is visible by only a picture in the St.…

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The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, directed by Tim Rhoze. September 27 - October 28, 2012. Faded Southern Belle Amanda Wingfield will stop at nothing to find a husband for her painfully shy daughter, Laura, still living at home with her brother, Tom, a would-be writer working in a shoe factory. When Amanda enlists Tom's help in bringing home a "gentleman caller" from the factory, the family's dreams hang in the balance as they struggle to escape the hopelessness of their world.

First New Classics Edition. - New Directions, New York - 1949 - First Issue, one of 2,000 copies (from a total of 3,609 sets of sheets) bound with inserted photographs from the New York production of the play. Octavo (18.5cm); taupe cloth, with titles stamped in navy blue on spine; dustjacket; xx,124pp; illustrated with four photographic stills. Small two-digit code and publisher's price of $1.50 neatly rubber-stamped to upper rear endpaper, else a fresh, Fine copy. Dustjacket designed by…

The Glass Menagerie

the glass menagerie

No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie. As Williams’s first popular success, it 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…

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Study Guide. Chapter summaries, book synopsis, character lists, quotes, and more. Help on your homework, exams and essays. Access via eNotes free trial.

Tennessee Williams quote about world from The Glass Menagerie: “She lives in a world of her own — a world of little glass ornaments, Mother...”