| Many Loves and Other Plays: The Collected Plays of William Carlos Williams Contributor(s): Williams, William Carlos (Author) |
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ISBN: 0811202321 ISBN-13: 9780811202329 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $8.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1961 Annotation: For this volume, William Carlos Williams collected, and revised, four full-length plays and the libretto of an opera on George Washington. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - General |
| Dewey: 812.52 |
| LCCN: 61009334 |
| Series: New Directions Paperbook |
| Physical Information: 1.04" H x 5.24" W x 8" (0.88 lbs) 437 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Many Loves, which ran for nearly a year (1959) in repertory at New York's famous Living Theatre, explores four varieties of human attachment, while A Dream of Love, first produced in 1949, is a penetrating and poetic treatment of infidelity and marriage. Tituba's Children, written three years before Arthur Miller's Crucible, is a dramatic study of witch-hunting - the Salem trials of 1692 and McCarthyism in the 1950's. The First President was first published in 1936. It is preceded by a long introduction on the theory of opera, the role of music, and the problems of realizing a historic figure on the stage. The Cure (1960) reminds us that Dr. Williams was for forty-two years a practicing physician. Its theme, developed in a very unusual situation, is the relationship between nurse and patient. |
Contributor Bio(s): Williams, William Carlos: - Besides being a practicing physician, William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was a poet, short-story writer, novelist, translator, playwright, and essayist whose contribution to the development of modern American poetry grew out of his commitment to recording the "local" experience of Rutherford, New Jersey, and its environs. |