1st Edition
Essays on The Glass Menagerie Truth in the Pleasant Disguise of Illusion
By Tania Chakravertty
Copyright 2025
98 Pages
by
Routledge
98 Pages
by
Routledge
98 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume traces the growth of Tennessee Williams from being a fragile child to becoming one of America’s greatest playwrights, also highlighting the playwright’s deep indebtedness to the Southern literary conventions. The book analyses Williams’s wonderful play with the sense of time and shows how in The Glass Menagerie as in all memory plays, the protagonist ruminates over the past,... Read more
1 Tennessee Williams: the Formative Years
2 Autobiographical Elements in The Glass Menagerie
3 Tennessee Williams, the Southern Writer
4 Williams’s Play with Time: The Glass Menagerie as a Memory Play
5 Experiments with Form in The Glass Menagerie
6 The Wingfields and the Gentleman Caller: A Study of the Characters in The Glass Menagerie
Conclusion
Biography
Tania Chakravertty is the Dean of Students’ Welfare, Diamond Harbour Women’s University, West Bengal, India. She is the author of Ernest Hemingway and the Fluidity of Gender: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Selected Works.
