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Mister Paradise and other one-act plays / by Tennessee Williams ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Nicholas Moschovakis and David Roessel ; foreword by Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson.

Title
Mister Paradise and other one-act plays / by Tennessee Williams ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Nicholas Moschovakis and David Roessel ; foreword by Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson.
Author
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983
Publication
New York : New Directions, 2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Moschovakis, Nicholas Rand, 1969-
  • Roessel, David E. (David Ernest), 1954-
  • New Directions Publishing
Description
xxxvi, 245 p.; 21 cm.
Summary
  • "This new collection of previously unpublished one-acts includes some of Tennessee Williams's most poignant and hilarious characters: the tough and outrageous drag queens of And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens ... ; the betrayed wife who refuses to take a lover in The Fat Man's Wife; and the extravagant mistress who cheats on her married man in The Pink Bedroom."
  • "Most of these plays were written in the 1930s and early 1940s, when Williams was already flexing his formidable theatrical imagination: lovers scramble for quick assignations in the closed movie theater balcony of These Are the Stairs You Got to Watch; Chekovian-style family ennui in Summer at the Lake leads to heartbreak; and in Thank You, Kind Spirit a mulatto spiritualist from New Orleans' French Quarter is viciously exposed as a fraud - or is she?"--Jacket.
Series Statement
New Directions paperbook ; 1007
Subjects
Genre/Form
One-act plays
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 245).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
These are the stairs you got to watch -- Mister Paradise -- The Palooka -- Escape -- Why do you smoke so much, Lily? -- Summer at the lake -- The big game -- The pink bedroom -- The fat man's wife -- Thank you, kind spirit -- The Municipal Abattoir -- Adam and Eve on a ferry -- And tell sad stories of the deaths of queens.
ISBN
0811216209 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LCCN
^^2004028183
OCLC
  • 57168440
  • SCSB-10857996
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library