Name: cat on a hot tin roof
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Author: Williams, Tennessee ; Albee, Edward
ISBN: 9780811216012

Type

Physical Book

Author

Tennessee Williams

Introduction by

Edward Albee

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1 x 13.2 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN

0811216012

ISBN13

9780811216012

Edition No.

0002

Synopsis "cat on a hot tin roof"

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sexuality repressed in the agony of her husband, Brick Pollitt. In spite of the public controversy Cat stirred up, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics Circle Award for that year. Williams, as he so often did with his plays, rewrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for many years--the present version was originally produced at the American Shakespeare Festival in 1974 with all the changes that made Williams finally declare the text to be definitive, and was most recently produced on Broadway in the 2003-04 season. This definitive edition also includes Williams' essay Person-to-Person, Williams' notes on the various endings, and a short chronology of the author's life. One of America's greatest living playwrights, as well as a friend and colleague of Williams, Edward Albee has written a concise introduction to the play from a playwright's perspective, examining the candor, sensuality, power, and impact of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof then and now.

Tennessee Williams

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(Mississippi, 1911 - New York, 1983) Thomas Lanier Williams III, better known by his stage name Tennessee Williams, was a prominent American playwright. He graduated with a degree in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Iowa, and in 1948 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire, and in 1955 for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Critics of the genre maintain that Williams wrote in a Southern Gothic style. His characters are often alien to social conventions. His work is well-known because many were made into films, with scripts by Tennessee Williams himself in most cases.

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