Publisher's Synopsis
One of Tennessee Williams' most popular plays in a special annotated edition for school and college students.
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. This edition provides the author's
preferred text, available for the first time in the United Kingdom, and
includes Williams' essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling
writer, 'The Catastrophe of Success', as well as a short section of
Williams' own production notes.
