Methuen Student Editions: The Glass Menagerie [The Play]
- Tennessee Williams
- Methuen
- 1/11/2008
- ISBN: 9780713685121
RRP: $21.99 (Inc. GST)
Description
The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams’ first great popular success and an autobiographical play about his mother and sister, launched the brilliant and controversial career of this ground-breaking American playwright. Set in St Louis during the depression era of the 1930s, it is the poignant drama of a family’s gradual disintegration, under pressure both from outside and within. A frustrated mother persuades her rebellious son to provide a ‘gentleman caller’ for her shy, crippled daughter, but her romantic dreams are shattered by the intervention of harsh reality.