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Thema: Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams, eigentlich Thomas Lanier Williams III
(* 26. März 1911; ? 25. Februar 1983) war ein schwuler US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller.
Frank Merlo war seit 1947 Tennessee Wiliiams? Lebensgefährte, die in dieser Zeit entstandenen Werke gelten als seine besten. Das Stück »Die tätowierte Rose« ist Frank Merlo gewidmet. Zwar ist auch immer wieder offen von Homosexualität in Tennessee Williams? Stücken die Rede, vor allem aber durch den schwulen Subtext sind alle immer noch schwule Klassiker.

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Christopher Castellani: Leading Men

USA 2020, 358 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin USA

In July of 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja Bloom, a mysterious young Swedish beauty and aspiring actress. Their encounter will go on to alter all of their lives. Ten years later, Frank revisits the tempestuous events of that fateful summer from his deathbed ... Weiterlesen

John Lahr: Tennessee Williams - Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

A Biography. USA 2015, 765 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 17.99
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W. W. Norton

John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. This biography gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant playwrights of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater and the nation's sense of itself. This deeply researched biography sheds light on Williams's warring family, his lobotomized sister, his guilt, his plays, his homosexuality and ... Weiterlesen

James Grissom: Follies of God

Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog. USA 2015, 416 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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Knopf

This book makes almost magically clear how Tennessee Williams wrote, how he came to his visions of Amanda Wingfield, his Blanche DuBois, Stella Kowalski, Alma Winemiller, Lady Torrance, and the other characters of his plays that transformed the American theater of the mid-20th century. The book reveals the heart and soul of artistic inspiration and the collaboration between playwright and ... Weiterlesen

Josh Shoemake: Tangier

A Literary Guide for Travellers. UK/USA 2013, 286 pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 29.95
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I.B. Tauris

An edge city, overlooking both the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, Tangier is more than a destination, it is an escape, and the »Interzone«, as William Burroughs called it, has attracted spies, outlaws, outcasts and writers for centuries - men and women working out at the edge of literary forms, breaking through artistic borders. This outlaw originality is what most astonishes ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Bram: Eminent Outlaws

The Gay Writers Who Changed America. USA 2012, 372 pp., hardbound, € 28.99
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Hachette

In the years following WWII a group of gay writers established themselves as major cultural figures in American life. Truman Capote, the enfant terrible, whose finely wrought fiction and nonfiction captured the nation's imagination. Gore Vidal, the wry, withering chronicler of politics, sex, and history. Tennessee Williams, whose powerful plays rocketed him to the top of the American theater. James ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: Diaries Vol. One: 1939 - 1960

Ed. by Katherine Bucknell. UK 2011, 1050 pp., brochure, € 28.95
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In 1939 Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden emigrated together to the United States. In spare, luminous prose these diaries describe Isherwood's search for a new life in California, his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, his pacifism during World War II and his friendships with such gifted artists and intellectuals as Greta Garbo, Charlie Chaplin, Klaus Mann, Charles Laughton, Lawrence ... Weiterlesen

Tennessee Williams: Memoirs

USA 2007, 274 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin USA

Long self-identified as a gay man, America's greatest playwright Williams' candour in his book about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself. Here, more than thirty years later, Williams' look back at his life is not quite so scandalous as it once seemed. Director John Waters provided an introduction to the book ... Weiterlesen

Margaret B. Thornton: Tennessee Williams - Notebooks

USA 2006, 828 pp., hardback, € 34.95
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Tennessee Williams' notebooks have now been published for the first time. In these pages this monumental American genius wrote out his most private thoughts. He reflected on his plays, stories, and poems. And he gave accounts of his social, professional, and sexual encounters. These notebooks are the repository of Williams' fears, obsessions, passions, and contradictions. This convincing tome is a ... Weiterlesen

Michael Paller: Gentlemen Callers

USA 2005, 269 pp., cloth, € 24.30
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

The author examines Tennessee Williams's plays from the 1940s through the 1980s against the backdrop of the playwright's life story and the culture in which he worked, providing fresh details. Through this lens the author examines the evolution of mid-20th-century America's acknowledgement and acceptance of homosexuality. From the early one-act »Auto-da-Fé« and »The Glass Menagerie« through »Small Craft Warnings« and ... Weiterlesen