The "Glass Menagerie" (Student Editions) - Softcover

The revolutionary newness of The Glass Menagerie . . . was in its poetic lift, but an underlying hard dramatic structure was what earned the play its right to sing poetically. --Arthur Miller"

With the advent of The Glass Menagerie . . . Tennessee Williams emerged as a poet-playwright and a unique new force in theatre throughout the world. --Lyle Leverich in Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Wil"

One of Tennessee Williams' most popular plays in a special annotated edition for school and college students. The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams' first great popular successand an autobiographical play about his mother and sister, launched thebrilliant and controversial career of this ground-breaking Americanplaywright. Set in St Louis during the depression era of the 1930s, itis the poignant drama of a family's gradual disintegration, underpressure both from outside and within. A frustrated mother persuadesher rebellious son to provide a 'gentleman caller' for her shy,crippled daughter, but her romantic dreams are shattered by theintervention of harsh reality. This edition provides the author'spreferred text, available for the first time in the United Kingdom, andincludes Williams' essay on the impact of sudden fame on a strugglingwriter, 'The Catastrophe of Success', as well as a short section ofWilliams' own production notes.