Thomas Keith began his association with James Laughlin, Peggy L. Fox, and New Directions in 1987 and has edited the Tennessee Williams titles for New Directions since 2002. He works as a consultant, editor, and acting teacher in New York City.
62 Ebooks by Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie
The story of a mother, her son and daughter, and her daughter’s suitor that brings to life human beings who cling to a dream world that can so easily be shattered into jagged …
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Tennessee Williams: Streetcar Named Desire
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche Du Bois and …
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Tennessee Williams: Glass Menagerie
Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by ‘gentleman callers’. Her son Tom, a poet …
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Tennessee Williams: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
‘Big Daddy’ Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion: Gooper, his wife and …
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Tennessee Williams: Rose Tattoo and Other Plays
In these three exotic, steamy dramas Tennessee Williams portrays loss, faded lives and passionate love affairs.The Rose Tattoo is set in a bustling, Sicilian-American community, where newly widowed …
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David Roessel & Tennessee Williams: Mister Paradise
The greatest playwright of the American South, Tennessee Williams used his talent throughout his life to create brief plays exploring many of the themes that dominated his best-known works. Here, …
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Tennessee Williams: Memoirs
When Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the media–though long self-identified as a gay man, Williams’ candour about his love life, sexual encounters, and …
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Tennessee Williams: Baby Doll and Other Plays
Tennessee Williams’s controversial Hollywood screenplay Baby Doll opens with Archie Lee’s teenage bride driving him to distraction, as she has refused to consummate their marriage until the day of …
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Tennessee Williams: Sweet Bird of Youth and Other Plays
Loneliness, sexual tension and the need for human kindness pervade these three plays by Tennessee Williams, as their characters rage against personal demons and the modern world. In ‘Sweet Bird of …
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Tennessee Williams: Suddenly Last Summer and Other Plays
These three dramatic works by Tennessee Williams explore the darker side of human nature and are haunted by a sense of isolation and regret. ‘Suddenly Last Summer’ is the starkly told story of …
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Tennessee Williams: Roman Spring Of Mrs Stone
Mrs Stone changed from a famous, rich American actress to a notorious, very rich American widow. But the transition took years and all that time her youth and legendary beauty slipped away. So she …
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Julie Smith: New Orleans Noir
“Explores the dark corners of our city . . . set both pre- and post-Katrina . . . harrowing reading, to be sure, but it’s pure page-turning pleasure, …
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James Laughlin & Tennessee Williams: The Luck of Friendship: The Letters of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin
The chronicle of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin’s unlikely yet enduring literary and personal relationship.
In December 1942, two guests at a Lincoln Kirstein mixer bonded over their shared …
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Tennessee Williams: The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Tennessee Williams’s first novel
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams. Published in 1950, his first novel was acclaimed by Gore Vidal as ‘splendidly written, precise, sh …
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Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie
No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie.
Menagerie was Williams’s first popular success and launche …
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Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams’ essay ‘The World I Live In.’ It is …
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Tennessee Williams: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The definitive text of this American classic—reissued with an introduction by Edward Albee (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Delicate Balance) and Williams’ essay ‘Person-to-Person.’
Cat on a H …
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Tennessee Williams: The Night of the Iguana
Now published for the first time as a trade paperback with a new introduction and the short story on which it was based. Williams wrote: “This is a play about love in its purest terms.” It is also Wi …
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Tennessee Williams: The Rose Tattoo
Published as a trade paperback for the first time, with a new introduction by the acclaimed playwright John Patrick Shanley (Doubt) and the one-act on which The Rose Tattoo was based.
The Rose Tatto …
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Tennessee Williams: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays
The thirteen one-act plays collected in this volume include some of Tennessee Williams’s finest and most powerful work. They are full of the perception of life as it is, and the passion for life as i …
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Tennessee Williams: Collected Stories
This definitive collection establishes Williams as a major American fiction writer of the twentieth century. Tennessee Williams’ Collected Stories combines the four short-story volumes publ …
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Tennessee Williams: Memoirs
For the ‘old crocodile, ‘ as Williams called himself late in life, the past was always present, and so it is with his continual shifting and intermingling of times, places, and memories as he weaves …
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Tennessee Williams: Tales of Desire (New Directions Pearls)
‘I yearned for a bad influence and boy, was Tennessee one in the best sense of the word: joyous, alarming, sexually confusing and dangerously funny.’—John Waters “I cannot write any sort of story, ” …
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Tennessee Williams: Baby Doll & Tiger Tail: A screenplay and play by Tennessee Williams
A taut, vivid drama of a voluptuous child-bridge who refuses to consummate her marriage to an older, down-on-his-luck cotton-gin owner. In 1956, Time magazine called Tennessee Williams’&#x …
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Tennessee Williams: The Notebook of Trigorin: A Free Adaptation of Chechkov’s The Sea Gull
Tennessee Williams freely adapts Anton Chekhov’s Russian classic ‘The Seagull’. From the master twentieth-century playwright Tennessee Williams-an adaptation of Chekhov’s
The Sea Gull, never before …
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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer
Two of Tennessee Williams’s most revered dramas in a single paperback edition for the first time.
Orpheus Descending is a love story, a plea for spiritual and artistic freedom, as well as a portrai …
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Tennessee Williams: A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur
In this masterful play, Tennessee Williams explores the meaning of loneliness and the need for human connection through the lens of four women and the designs and desires they harbor—for themselves a …
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Tennessee Williams: Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws & Other One-Act Plays
“The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays—like firecrackers in a rope.” —Tennessee Williams This new collection of fantastic, lesser-known one-acts contains some of Williams’s most potent, …
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Tennessee Williams: Moise and the World of Reason
What’s not to like about Tennessee Williams’s most forthright work about homosexual love, with its gay figure skaters, runaways, and sex?
An erotic, sensual, and comic novel that was a generation a …
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Tennessee Williams: Stairs to the Roof
A play produced only twice in the 1940s and now published for the first time reveals that Tennessee Williams anticipated the themes of Star Trek by decades. Sixty years ago a young Tennessee Williams …
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Tennessee Williams: The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays
A wonderful collection of never-before-collected one-acts: “The peak of my virtuosity was in the one- act plays. Some of which are like firecrackers in a rope” (Tennessee Williams). Here are portrait …
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Tennessee Williams: Clothes for a Summer Hotel: Play
This late play by Tennessee Williams explores the troubled relationship between F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. The late Tennessee Williams’s Clothes for a Summer Hotelmade its New York debut in …
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Tennessee Williams: Fugitive Kind
Social outcasts, misfit survivors, dangerous passions—Tennessee Williams fleshed out the characters and themes that would dominate his later work in Fugitive Kind, one of his earliest plays. &#x …
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Tennessee Williams: Vieux Carre
Born out of the journals the playwright kept at the time, Tennessee Williams’s Vieux Carré is not emotion recollected in tranquility, but emotion re-created with all the pain, compassion, and wry hum …
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Tennessee Williams: Camino Real
Now with a new introduction, the author’s original Foreword and Afterword, the one-act play 10 Blocks on the Camino Real, plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar, Michael Paller. In this ph …
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Tennessee Williams: Sweet Bird of Youth
Now with an insightful new introduction, the author’s original Foreword, and the one-act play, The Enemy: Time, on which Sweet Bird of Youth was based. Tennessee Williams knew how to tell a good tale …
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Dan Isaac & Tennessee Williams: Candles to the Sun
This early play about coal miners struggling to improve their lives helped establish a young Tennessee Williams as a powerful new voice in American theater. The first full-length play by novice playw …
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Tennessee Williams: The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams
All of the author’s previously published poems, including poems from the plays, are in this definitive edition that comes with a CD of the author reading some of his poems in his unmistakable Mississ …
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Tennessee Williams: A House Not Meant to Stand: A Gothic Comedy
The spellbinding last full-length play produced during the author’s lifetime is now published for the first time. Christmas 1982: Cornelius and Bella Mc Corkle of Pascagoula, Mississippi, return home …
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Tennessee Williams: Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays
Thirteen previously unpublished short plays now available for the first time. Tennessee Williams had a distinct talent for writing short plays and, not surprisingly, this remarkable new collection of …
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Tennessee Williams: Not About Nightingales
This early full-length play put a young Tennessee Williams’ passion for social justice in the spotlight. ‘Haunting, searing, unforgettable’ —London Herald In early 1998, sixty years after it was …
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Tennessee Williams: Spring Storm
‘A crucible of so many elements that would later shape and characterize Williams’s work.’—World Literature Today
When Tennessee Williams read Spring Storm aloud to his playwriting class at the Univ …
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Tennessee Williams: The Traveling Companion & Other Plays
Twelve previously uncollected experimental shorter plays: The Chalky White Substance • The Day on Which a Man Dies (An Occidental Noh Play) • A Cavalier for Milady • The Pronoun ‘I’ • The Remarkable …
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Tennessee Williams: The Two-Character Play
A classic play by Tennessee Williams in a definitive, author-approved edition. Reality and fantasy are interwoven with terrifying power as two actors on tour—brother and sister—find themselves desert …
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Tennessee Williams: Something Cloudy, Something Clear
Tennessee Williams returns to a pivotal moment in his stormy youth in Something Cloudy, Something Clear, which introducer Eve Adamson calls ‘a delicately woven tapestry of past and present, vulnerabi …
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Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
‘The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play.’
A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of B …
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Tennessee Williams: Caterpillar Dogs: and Other Early Stories
Seven previously unpublished stories of the Great Depression by America’s poet laureate of the lost
These tales were penned by one Thomas Lanier Williams of Missouri before he became a successful p …
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Tennessee Williams: Streetcar Named Desire
Tennesse Williams, one of the 20th century’s most superb writers, was also one of its most successful and prolifts. His classic works include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Glass Menagerie, Summer and …
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Tennessee Williams: Streetcar Named Desire
" i don’ t want realism. i want magic!" Blanche Du Bois- the insecure, promiscuous, archetypal Southern belle- has lost her ancestral estate. But she hasn’ t lost her pretence. Penniless, …
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Jonathan Maberry & R. L. Stine: Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first issues of Weird Tales Magazine, 100 Years of Weird is a masterful compendium of new and classic stories, flash fiction, essays, and poems from the …
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Tennessee Williams: Tennessee Williams: One Act Plays
The peak of my virtuosity was in the one- act plays. Some of which are like firecrackers on a rope. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams”s lesser-known one-act plays reveal a tantalising and …
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Tennessee Williams: Tennessee Williams: One Act Plays
The peak of my virtuosity was in the one- act plays. Some of which are like firecrackers on a rope. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams”s lesser-known one-act plays reveal a tantalising and …
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Williams Tennessee Williams: Streetcar Named Desire
This revised Student Edition includes an introduction by Bess Rowen, Assistant Professor at Villanova University, US, which looks in particular at the play’s treatment of rape, vulnerable people, …
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Williams Tennessee Williams: Streetcar Named Desire
This revised Student Edition includes an introduction by Bess Rowen, Assistant Professor at Villanova University, US, which looks in particular at the play’s treatment of rape, vulnerable people, …
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Williams Tennessee Williams: Glass Menagerie
This revised Student Edition includes an introduction by Daniel Ciba, which looks in particular at the play as a piece of realism or experimentalism and considers the play through the lens of Queer …
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Williams Tennessee Williams: Glass Menagerie
This revised Student Edition includes an introduction by Daniel Ciba, which looks in particular at the play as a piece of realism or experimentalism and considers the play through the lens of Queer …
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Williams Tennessee Williams: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
‘Williams’s favourite among his plays, [Cat on a Hot Tin Roof] is perhaps his most impassioned and articulate statement on human isolation, the wrenching problems of communication between people and …
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Williams Tennessee Williams: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
‘Williams’s favourite among his plays, [Cat on a Hot Tin Roof] is perhaps his most impassioned and articulate statement on human isolation, the wrenching problems of communication between people and …
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Williams Tennessee Williams: Sweet Bird of Youth
‘Tennessee Williams’s mordantly funny and deeply troubled meditation on the desperate dismay of ageing and the iniquities of racial bigotry.’ INDEPENDENT ‘It’s a wonderfully weird play, starting …
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Williams Tennessee Williams: Sweet Bird of Youth
‘Tennessee Williams’s mordantly funny and deeply troubled meditation on the desperate dismay of ageing and the iniquities of racial bigotry.’ INDEPENDENT ‘It’s a wonderfully weird play, starting …
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Tennessee Williams & Heinz Arnold: Lektüreschlüssel. Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
Reclams ‘Fremdsprachen-Lektüreschlüssel. Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire’ bezieht sich auf den fremdsprachigen Originaltext (in Reclams Roter Reihe), ist aber auf Deutsch verfasst und …
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Tennessee Williams & Heinz Arnold: Lektüreschlüssel. Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
Reclams ‘Fremdsprachen-Lektüreschlüssel. Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire’ bezieht sich auf den fremdsprachigen Originaltext (in Reclams Roter Reihe), ist aber auf Deutsch verfasst und …
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