| Now the Cats with Jeweled Claws & Other One-Act Plays Contributor(s): Williams, Tennessee (Author), Keith, Thomas (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0811225569 ISBN-13: 9780811225564 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - General |
| Dewey: 812.54 |
| LCCN: 2016005199 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.50 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This new collection of fantastic, lesser-known one-acts contains some of Williams's most potent, comical and disturbing short plays?Upper East Side ladies dine out during the apocalypse in Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws, while the poet Hart Crane is confronted by his mother at the bottom of the ocean in Steps Must Be Gentle. Five previously unpublished plays include A Recluse and His Guest, and The Strange Play, in which we witness a woman's entire life lived within a twenty-four-hour span. This volume is edited, with an introduction and notes, by the editor, acting teacher, and theater scholar Thomas Keith. |
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.Keith, Thomas: - Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1961, Thomas Keith is an editor, as well as production manager and art director, at New Directions Publishing. He lives in New York City. |