Please conduct some research on Tennessee Williams, the author of The Glass Menagerie. Share some interesting facts that you learned about him, and please share the source(s) for your findings. Your response should be at least three sentences long (+ source).
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Tennessee Williams (born March 26, 1911) was one of the major playwrights of the 20th century. His first two broadway plays, The Glass Menagerie (1945) and A Streetcar Named Desire, (1947) helped him to earn his name. He was one of the founders of “New Drama”. 20 years after the premiere of The Glass Menagerie, Joanne Stang wrote in the New York Times that “the American theater, indeed theater everywhere, has never been the same”.
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Tennessee Williams, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, is considered by many to be America’s greatest playwright. His beloved and enduring characters represents the loneliness, depression, and uncertainty that were part of his personal life which was a product of his childhood and marriage. His family members including himself became models of his character in the different plays that he wrote. After he moved to New Orleans in 1939, he took the name Tennessee, which was suppose to be his nickname, and accepted his status as a gay man. The turning point of his career was the production of “The Glass Menagerie,” which won a New York Critics Circle Award, however his life continued with the negativities of human life and eventually died in 1983 after choking on the lid of one of his pill bottles.
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Tennessee Williams moved to Missouri as a young adult. It was then he began to look deeper at life and start writing ”because I found life unsatisfactory.” Tennessee Williams attended three different colleges and even worked at his father’s shoe company before moving to New Orleans. He developed a “lifelong love of the city” which inspired him to write his well-known work “A Streetcar named Desire”.
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Tennessee Williams is best known for plays like The Glass Menagerie (1944) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1947). At one point before his plays became popular, Williams worked on a chicken ranch as a caretaker. Apparently this job did not go well for him as he has described it as “disastrous”. After suffering an unknown illness at an early age, Williams personality changed which ultimately led him to become a playwright. The original title for A Streetcar Named Desire was Blanche’s Chair in the Moon.
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During his travels, Tennessee Williams found that he was gay. None of his relationships ended well and it seems to have affected his plays, riddled by loneliness. Many of Williams’ characters in The Glass Menagerie were based on his own family members. Williams fell into a depression after losing his longtime partner to lung cancer. He started using drugs and abused alcohol, and his career declined. He recovered, though still suffered with struggles through the rest of his life. https://historicmissourians.shsmo.org/historicmissourians/name/w/williams/
Tennessee Williams was a famous playwright, most known for his work of “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1951) and “The Glass Menagerie” (1944). Throughout Williams’ life, it seemed that the characters within his writing, resembled his real life in which involved a lot of drama. He also based characters off the people who surrounded him in real life. Williams was baptized as a youth and felt the need to go through a second baptism in which did not follow his expectations. He questioned various portions of what being religious truly meant. Williams was one day found dead, but the cause was still unknown with the various mental stresses he had, the drugs he would take, and his overall lifestyle.
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Williams had a dysfunctional family with an abusive and alcoholic father. He cared deeply about his sister who had schizophrenia. She went through a lobotomy and had to be put in a hospital. He later used his money to move her to a private facility and used his profits for her care. She was also listed on his will. His stories hold similar family situations. In his adult life, he developed a drug addiction and was depressed. He had many partners who died which caused a lot of emotional distress for him.
Tennessee Williams is a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, known for his award winning and influential plays, as well as his adaptations for film and opera. Tennessee Williams is considered to be a revolutionary playwright, due to the fact that he wrote about ordinary characters that often seemed over looked in theater. His language and his use of “the haunting tales of humanity” are what gave him his recognition and is known to have changed what theater was and known for. Tennessee Williams was born and raised in Columbus, Mississippi, with his name originally being Thomas Lanier Willams III. Willams began using the name Tennessee after a nickname he was given in college for his “southern drawl, and accepted status as a gay man”. Williams’ most notable work includes ” A Street Car Named Desire”, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, and “The Glass Menagerie”.
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Tennessee Williams grew up in a dysfunctional home with a father who was an abusive alcoholic and an unhappy mother stuck in an unhappy marriage. She eventually left the father (although they were still married). Tennessee Williams was without a real father figure and had an over-involved mother. In the Glass Menagerie, you can see this being portrayed. Tom and Laura Wingfield are without a father figure, and their mom Amanda Wingfield is overinvolved in her daughter’s love life and studies.
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Tennessee Williams, a Pulitzer prize-winning playwright, is best known for his plays, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” and “The Glass Menagerie.” Most of his work was derived from personal experiences such as his troubled childhood, including other hardships and addictions. Moreover, his characters, too, represented part of what he endured in his personal life such as depression, loneliness, and uncertainty. Unfortunately, Williams passed away in 1983 after choking on the lid of one of his pill bottles.
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Tennessee Williams was an American playwright, whose top work was, “The Glass Menagerie”, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, among others. One thing that may not be know is that he very much disliked the movie adaptation to his play, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” Another interesting tidbit about him; he had lost a playwright contest when he was attending the Washington University, in St. Louis. He would “surprise himself” by yelling at the professor about the decision. Lastly, his real name was not Tennessee, but rather Thomas Lanier Williams III. Nobody knows why he chose the alias Tennessee.
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Tennessee Williams was born on March 26, 1911, in Columbus, Mississippi. Some of his notable works are The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and A Streetcar Named Desire. Williams first was introduced to playwriting at the University of Missouri. His first notable piece was called American Blues which he wrote in 1939. During the 1960s, Williams suffered from his addiction to sleeping medication and alcohol.
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At age 27, Tennessee Williams entered and won a playwriting contest aimed towards writers at the age 25 and younger. His famous piece, A Streetcar Named Desire was originally intended to be called Blanche’s Chair in the Moon. In the event of a Streetcar Named Desire remake, Williams wanted Meryl Streep to star as Blanche. As a young writer he focused on fantasy and science fiction pieces.
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-Born Thomas Lanier Williams in Columbus, Mississippi in 1911, Tennessee was the son of a shoe company executive and a Southern belle. Williams described his childhood in Mississippi as happy and carefree. This sense of belonging and comfort were lost, however, when his family moved to the urban environment of St. Louis, Missouri.
-At the height of his career in the late 1940s and 1950s, Williams worked with the premier artists of the time, most notably Elia Kazan, the director for stage and screen productions of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, and the stage productions of CAMINO REAL, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, and SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH. Kazan also directed Williams’ film BABY DOLL. Like many of his works, BABY DOLL was simultaneously praised and denounced for addressing raw subject matter in a straightforward realistic way.
-After his release from the hospital in the 1970s, Williams wrote plays, a memoir, poems, short stories and a novel. In 1975 he published MEMOIRS, which detailed his life and discussed his addiction to drugs and alcohol, as well as his homosexuality. In 1980 Williams wrote CLOTHES FOR A SUMMER HOTEL, based on the lives of Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Only three years later, Tennessee Williams died in a New York City hotel filled with half-finished bottles of wine and pills.
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Tennessee Williams was one of the major playwrights in American in the 20th century and many parts of his writing were inspired by his own life story. His actual name was Thomas Lanier Williams before he created his pen name. Problems within his family were often reflected in his writing. An example of this is that his mother’s psychological problems led to him including an enduring mother in many of his pieces.
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Tennessee Williams, a prize-winning playwright, was born on March 26, 1911. Williams was born and raised in Columbus, Mississippi with his two other siblings. He described that period as a happy and pleasant time for him. Mostly raised by his mother, Williams had a complicated relationship with his father. His father, who was a salesman, preferred work instead of parenting. William started writing when he moved to an urban home, in St. Louis, Missouri. Williams’ home was a tense place to live in. However, his family conflicts fueled his writing and gave him ideas. Williams moved to New Orleans and renovated his lifestyle. His experiences in New Orleans inspired his play ” A Streetcar Named Desire”,
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Tennessee Williams, whose original name is Thomas Lanier Williams, was born on March 26, 1911. He is an American dramatist who focuses on the frustration in sex and violence in a romantic relationship. His first play is the “American Blues” (1939) which gained him recognition. Then, the second play he released was the “The Glass Menagerie” (1944), which gained him success. He won a Pulitzer Prize after he released “A streetcar named Desire” in 1947.
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Tennessee Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus Mississippi but moved to New Orleans after earning a BA at the University of Iowa. Williams was a major playwright in America, parts of his writing were inspired his own life experiences and story. Williams writing included setting along with other characteristic such as romanticism. Williams suffered from a variety of ailments, some serious, some surely imaginary, and at certain periods he overindulged in alcohol and prescription drugs. Despite these circumstances, he continued to write with determination.
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Tennessee Williams was a playwright on March 26, 1911, in Columbus, Mississippi. He used his life experiences in his writing for example his mother became the model for the foolish but strong Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie, while his father represented the aggressive, driving Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Later in his life, he struggled with addiction from alcohol and sleeping pills which is sad for a talented and creative man.
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