The Glass Menagerie

Name: The Glass Menagerie
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Tennessee Williams
ISBN: 9781987137996

Author: Tennessee Williams

Narrator: Joseph Kent

Unabridged: 1 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HN Publishing

Published: 05/06/2019

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Menagerie was Williams' first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our preeminent 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 it is studied and performed in classrooms and theaters around the worldA 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' essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, "The Catastrophe of Success", as well as a short section of Williams' own "Production Notes".

About Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) is the acclaimed author of many books of letters, short stories, poems, essays, and a large collection of plays, including The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, The Night of the Iguana, and The Rose Tattoo.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Susan on April 10, 2020

Oh Laura. Poor damaged Laura. If there has ever been a more sensitive and poignant portrayal of mental illness than Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie, I have yet to come across it. Laura breaks my heart. It is impossible not to love her and want to shelter her from the world. She is a unicorn am......more

Goodreads review by Jim on November 14, 2023

Many of us know the story set in a dingy tenement: a mother and her adult son and daughter. If the phrase ‘lives of quiet desperation' has any meaning, it’s here in this stage play. The fragility of daughter Laura is symbolized by the tiny glass animals she collects and her life of dusting them and......more

Goodreads review by Hailey on February 12, 2017

*Reread for class 2017 Still a great play. I originally read this 5 or 6 years ago for my high school English class and it is so interesting now getting a new perspective in a university class.......more

Goodreads review by Eric on December 04, 2023

The Glass Menagerie is a great domestic tragedy with three very distinctive characters--the strong, proud Amanda, the weak and innocent Laura, and the realistic dreamer, Tom. One finds in this play an elegiac portrait of misery, rather than a scalding enactment of taboo. There is no one tragic event......more

Goodreads review by James on August 24, 2017

Book Review 4 of 5 stars to The Glass Menagerie, written in 1945 by Tennessee Williams. The play is told from the perspective of Tom, the son of Amanda and brother of Laura, three members of the Wingfield family living in Missouri in the 1930s. Amanda's husband, the and kids father, left......more