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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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- 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- "This new collection of previously unpublished one-acts includes some of Tennessee Williams's most poignant and hilarious characters: the tough and outrageous drag queens of And Tell Sad Stories of the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