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Mar 26, 1911 — Feb 25, 1983· 71 yrs

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Tennessee Williams

Also known as: Thomas Lanier Williams, Tennessee Williams

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Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama. Williams wrote his first play in 1930, but his work did not gain much traction until 1944 with the success of The Glass Menagerie. His next plays, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), and The Night of the Iguana (1961), were also successful and widely acclaimed. With his later work, Williams attempted a new style that did not appeal as widely to audiences.

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At the rise of the curtain someone is taking a shower in the bathroom, the door of which is half open.

— from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1955

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A streetcar named Desire

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A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most remarkable plays of our time. It created an immortal woman in the character of Blanche DuBois, the haggard and fragile southern beauty whose pathetic last grasp at happiness is cruelly destroyed. It shot Marlon Brando to fame in the role of Stanley Kowalski, a sweat-shirted barbarian, the crudely sensual brother-in-law who precipitated Blance's tragedy. Produced across the world and translated into many languages, A Streetcar Named Desire has won one of the widest audiences in contemporary literature. Also contained in: - [New Voices in the American Theatre]( - [Plays 1937 - 1955](

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Not about nightingales

1998

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One of Tennessee Williams's first plays, "Not About Nightingales" portrays the lives of inmates in a Pennsylvania prison who were steamed to death after leading their fellow prisoners on a hunger strike.

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The Glass Menagerie

1983

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The Glass Menagerie was Tennessee Williams's first great popular success. It won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and enjoyed a long Broadway run with the incomparable Laurette Taylor in the starring role. Since then it has become one of the most-performed plays in the repertory of American community theaters. Also contained in: - [Backpack Literature: Fifth Edition]( - [Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing: 6th edition]( - [Contemporary Drama: Eleven Plays]( - [Experience of literature]( - [Experience of literature: second edition]( - [Exploring Literature: Fourth Edition]( - [Literature: Structure, sound, and sense: Fourth Edition]( - [Plays 1937 - 1955]( - [Representative Modern Plays, American]( - [Six Great Modern Plays]( - [Trio: Fourth Edition]( - [The United States in Literature]- [The United States in Literature]- [The United States in Literature]( - [United States in Literature]:

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