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An edition of The Glass Menagerie
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The Glass Menagerie
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by Tennessee Williams
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No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. As Williams's first popular success, it launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career, of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, Menagaerie has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the world.
The Glass Menagerie (in the reading text the author preferred) is now available only in its New Directions Paperbook edition. A new introduction by the editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, Robert Bray, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. This edition of The Glass Menagerie also includes Williams's essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, "The Catastrophe of Success," as well as a short section of Williams's own "Production Notes."
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The Glass Menagerie
2000, Methuen Drama
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The Glass Menagerie
1999, New Directions
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The Glass Menagerie (Heinemann Plays)
April 9, 1996, Heinemann Educational Publishers
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Glass Menagerie (Penguin Plays & Screenplays)
January 1988, Penguin USA (P)
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The Glass Menagerie
1987-10, New American Library, Signet
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The Glass Menagerie
1987-10, New American Library
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The Glass Menagerie
1987 10, Signet
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The Glass Menagerie
1976, Dramatists Play Service Inc.
Paperback
in English
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The Glass Menagerie
1970, The New Classics
Paperback
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- Reset Edition; 13th printing
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The Glass Menagerie
1970, The New Classics
Paperback
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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.
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