內(nèi)容簡介:Play in which characters from history and literature —Don Quixote, Lord Bryon — inhabit a corrupt town visited by an all-American good guy.
作者簡介:
Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evening writing. He entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great diversity. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published Summer and Smoke (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real (1953), Baby Doll (1957), Orpheus Descending (1957), Something Unspoken (1958), Suddenly Last Summer (1958), Period of Adjustment (1960), The Night of the Iguana (1961), The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963), and Small Craft Warnings (1972). Tennessee Williams died in 1983.
田納西·威廉斯(Tennessee Williams,1911-1983),是美國20世紀(jì)最偉大的三大戲劇家之一(另外兩位是尤金·奧尼爾和阿瑟·米勒),同時也是全世界范圍內(nèi)最重要的劇作家之一。1948年和1955年分別以其《欲望號街車》及《熱鐵皮屋頂上的貓》兩度贏得普利策獎和戲劇評論獎;《玻璃動物園》和《鬣蜥之夜》也分別于1945年和1961年拿下紐約戲劇評論獎,1952年的《玫瑰黥紋》獲得托尼獎最佳戲劇獎殊榮。