ISBN: 9780811214728

Fugitive Kind, one of Tennessee Williams's earliest plays, is one of his richest in dramatic material. Written in 1937 when the playwright was still Thomas Lanier Williams, Fugitive Kind … More...

Fugitive Kind, one of Tennessee Williams's earliest plays, is one of his richest in dramatic material. Written in 1937 when the playwright was still Thomas Lanier Williams, Fugitive Kind introduces the character who will inhabit most of his later plays: the marginal man or woman who, through no personal fault, is a misfit in society but who demonstrates an admirable will to survive. Signature Tennessee Williams' characters, situations, and even the title (which was used as The Fugitive Kind for the 1960 film based on Orpheus Descending) have their genesis here.At age twenty-six, Williams was still learning his craft and this, his second full-length play, shows his debt to sources as diverse as thirties gangster films (The Petrified Forest, Winterset) and Romeo and Juliet. Fugitive Kind, with its star-crossed lovers and big city slum setting, takes place in a flophouse on the St. Louis waterfront in the shadow of Eads Bridge, where Williams spent Saturdays away from his shoe factory job and met his characters: jobless wayfarers on the dole, young writers and artists of the WPA, even gangsters and G-men. Fugitive Kind was also Williams's second play to be produced by The Mummers, a St. Louis theatre group devoted to drama of social protest. Called "vital and absorbing" by a contemporary review in The St. Louis Star-Times, this play reveals the young playwright's own struggle between his radical-socialist sympathies and his poetic inclinations, and signals his future reputation as our most compassionate lyric dramatist. Media > Book, [PU: New Directions Publishing]<

2001, ISBN: 0811214729

Paperback

[EAN: 9780811214728], [PU: New Directions, New York], xxv, 147p., frontis of original Mummers cast playbill, introduction, production note, cast, script, very good first trade paperback e… More...

[EAN: 9780811214728], [PU: New Directions, New York], xxv, 147p., frontis of original Mummers cast playbill, introduction, production note, cast, script, very good first trade paperback edition thus, pictorial wraps. NDP 915. William's second full-length play, first produced by the activist theatre group, The Mummers in 1937. Williams had been influenced by "Winterset" & "The Petrified Forest" films as well as the political views of his friend Clark Mills who edited the Marxist fiction magazine "The Anvil". The title was also used for the Brando film based upon "Orpheus Descending", Books<

2001, ISBN: 9780811214728

Paperback

New York: New Directions, 2001. Paperback. xxv, 147p., frontis of original Mummers cast playbill, introduction, production note, cast, script, very good first trade paperback edition thu… More...

New York: New Directions, 2001. Paperback. xxv, 147p., frontis of original Mummers cast playbill, introduction, production note, cast, script, very good first trade paperback edition thus, pictorial wraps. NDP 915. William's second full-length play, first produced by the activist theatre group, The Mummers in 1937. Williams had been influenced by "Winterset" & "The Petrified Forest" films as well as the political views of his friend Clark Mills who edited the Marxist fiction magazine "The Anvil". The title was also used for the Brando film based upon "Orpheus Descending, New Directions, 2001, 0<