A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie; a Streetcar Named Desire; cat on a hot tin Roof; Sweet Bird of Youth [Audiobook] download free by Stephen Bottoms
- Listen audiobook: A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie; a Streetcar Named Desire; cat on a hot tin Roof; Sweet Bird of Youth
- Author: Stephen Bottoms
- Release date: 2014/5/20
- Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781472521866
- Rating: 7.65 of 10
- Votes: 375
- Review by: Pattie Stovall
- Review rating: 8.87 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/21
- Duration: 3H48M23S in 256 kbps (59.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-19
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MPEG4, FLAC, WAV, MP3, MPEG-4 SLS (compression ZIP, RAR, TAR.Z, DEB)
- Total pages original book: 296
- Includes a PDF summary of 26 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 20M7S (5.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams provides the essential guide to Williams' most studied and revived dramas. Authored by a team of leading scholars, it offers students a clear analysis and detailed commentary on four of Williams' plays: The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth. A consistent framework of analysis ensures that whether readers are wanting a summary of the play, a commentary on the themes or characters, or a discussion of the work in performance, they can readily find what they need to develop their understanding and aid their appreciation of Williams' artistry.A chronology of the writer's life and work helps to situate all his works in context and the introduction reinforces this by providing a clear overview of Williams' writing, its recurrent themes and concerns and how these are intertwined with his life and times. For each play the author provides a summary of the plot, followed by commentary on: The context Themes Characters Structure and language The play in production (both on stage and screen adaptations)Questions for study, and notes on words and phrases in the text are also supplied to aid the reader.The wealth of authoritative and clear commentary on each play, together with further questions that encourage comparison across Williams' work and related plays by other leading writers, ensures that this is the clearest and fullest guide to Williams' greatest plays.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Studies: From C 1900 -, Plays, Playscripts, Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights, Theatre Studies
- Download servers: FileServe, Hotfile, Uploaded, MyUpload, BitShare, 4Shared, SendMyWay, Dropbox. Compressed in ZIP, RAR, TAR.Z, DEB
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 29.40 USD
- Dimensions: 138x216x20.32mm
- Weight: 414g
- Printed by: METHUEN DRAMA
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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