TENNESSE WILLIAMS

Tennessee Williams has created an excellent piece or art depicting his life with his mother and sister. I must admit it was not really my genre of book but I found studying easy because it was brilliant. It's great story line of the 1930's family trying to survive the great depression and strained relations within the house hold. An over bearing and self centred mother who tries to control her son who is battling for his independence and he in turn as upset with the shy sister who thinks she is completely dependant on her mother. Admittedly it does seem like a long read but when you get into it you will find yourself shouting at the pages because you do not want to believe things happened this way.

Tennessee Williams's famous and controversial Hollywood screenplay Baby Doll opens with Archie Lee's teenage bride driving him to distraction, as she has refused to consummate their marriage until the day of her twentieth birthday. Enter wily Sicilian Silva Vaccaro, Archie's rival both in the cotton business and for the fluffy affections of flirtatious Baby Doll, and the steamy tension rapidly reaches breaking-point. 'Make no mistake about it,' wrote John Osborne, 'this Baby Doll kid is a killer.' This volume also contains Something Unspoken, a brilliantly comic study of a wealthy, manipulative Southern spinster, and Suddenly Last Summer, which tells the story of a man's escape from his possessive mother - and her revenge.

Tennesse Williams es, junto con Arthur Miller, el dramaturgo norteamericano de mayor difusión y prestigio. Es él quien ha llevado con rasgos más definitivos a la escena la atmósfera de ese sur fabuloso, de una aristocracia herida y decadente, en una obra que ha unido el sueño y la realidad, en un clima de pesadilla y erotismo. En un mundo etéreo, transparente, frágil como el cristal, se mueven los personajes de esta obra que obtuvo el premio de la crítica de Nueva York en 1945 al reconocer la hábil construcción de caracteres como el mayor logro, de El zoo de cristal.