The Rose Tattoo and Other Plays: "Camino Real","Orpheus Descending" (平装) 014118650X

在线阅读本书 Loss, faded lies and passionate love affairs . . .Three exotic, steamy dramas in which Tennessee Williams takes us from a bustling Sicilian-American community and a life-affirming celebration of love and sex in The Rose Tattoo, into a colourful tropical fantasy in Camino Royal and then finally into the familiar dark territory of Williamsrsquo; Deep South in Orpheus Descending: the corrupt hell of a small, brutal township, where a forbidden and tragic love affair sparks horrific violence. Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing. He entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great diversity. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play lt;Igt;Battle of Angelslt;/Igt;, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published lt;Igt;The Glass Menagerielt;/Igt; (1944), lt;Igt;A Streetcar Named Desirelt;/Igt; (1947), lt;Igt;Summer and Smokelt;/Igt; (1948), lt;Igt;The Rose Tattoolt;/Igt; (1951), lt;Igt;Camino Reallt;/Igt; (1953), lt;Igt;Cat on a Hot Tin Rooflt;/Igt; (1955), lt;Igt;Orpheus Descendinglt;/Igt; (1957), lt;Igt;Sweet Bird of Youthlt;/Igt; (1959), lt;Igt;Period of Adjustmentlt;/Igt; (1960), lt;Igt;The Night of the Iguanalt;/Igt; (1961), lt;Igt;The Milk Train Doesnrsquo;t Stop Here Anymorelt;/Igt; (1963; revised 1964) and lt;Igt;Small Craft Warnings lt;/Igt;(1972).