| Vieux Carre Contributor(s): Williams, Tennessee (Author), Bray, Robert (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0811214605 ISBN-13: 9780811214605 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00033860 |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 5.26" W x 7.79" (0.32 lbs) 116 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Gulf Coast - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana - Locality - New Orleans, Louisiana - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The drama takes it form from the shifting scenes of memory, and Williams's surrogate self invites us to focus, in turn, on the various inhabitants or his dilapidated rooming house in the Vieux Carré the comically desperate landlady, Mrs. Wire; Jane, a properly brought-up young woman from New York making at last grab at pleasure with Tye, the vulgar but appealing strip-joint barker; two decayed gentlewomen politely starving in the garret; and the dying painter Nightingale, who tries to teach the young writer something about love--both of the body and of the heart. This is a play about the education of the artist, and education in loneliness and despair, in giving and not giving, but most of all in seeing, hearing, feeling, and learning that writers are shameless spies, who pay dearly for their knowledge and who cannot forget. Building on two decades of Williams scholarship since Vieux Carré was originally published, Robert Bray, editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, has provided a new introduction for this edition, giving the most authoritative account yet of its background and genesis. |
Contributor Bio(s): Williams, Tennessee: - Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) is the acclaimed author of many books of letters, short stories, poems, essays, and a large collection of plays, including The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, The Night of the Iguana, and The Rose Tattoo.Bray, Robert: - Robert Bray is an author, editor, and Tennessee Williams scholar. |