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New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam, c2000.
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Contains selections of Williams' most influential works including "The Glass Menagerie," "A Streetcar Named Desire," and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
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LibraryThing member CurrerBell
While I've 4****-rated the first Library of America volume of Tennessee Williams, I just can't rate this second volume better than 3***. It's just too incomplete to be of serious academic use (and also, please note that Williams produced other plays subsequent to 1980), whether because of space
This volume does, though, give a good sampling of and is probably the most complete single-volume anthology available of Williams's later plays, complete for full-length plays through 1968's The Seven Descents of Myrtle (though even here omitting most of the period's one-act plays). After 1968, the inclusiveness become much spottier, concluding with 1979's quite underrated A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur.
A good collection, but seriously lacking in completeness.
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limitations or because of difficulty in obtaining rights to some of the omitted work.This volume does, though, give a good sampling of and is probably the most complete single-volume anthology available of Williams's later plays, complete for full-length plays through 1968's The Seven Descents of Myrtle (though even here omitting most of the period's one-act plays). After 1968, the inclusiveness become much spottier, concluding with 1979's quite underrated A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur.
A good collection, but seriously lacking in completeness.
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