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uninitiated Tennessee Williams had endured humiliation and profound discouragement at the calamitous Boston opening of Battle of Angels, the first of his plays to receive a major production.
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The Glass Menagerie[2] is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on its author, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister.
Williams’s usage agrees with the chief way in which the blues reached white American audiences of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, which was through lively, danceable, commercial jazz—or, as it became known in the later 1930s, swing music (Stowe 1-9). Williams was an inveterate dancer (Leverich 111).
In this 9-12 lesson, students will explore structural and technical devices of memory play through Tennessee Williams’s play, The Glass Menagerie. Students will apply the concept of memory play to write and dramatize original scripts.
A concise biography of Tennessee Williams plus historical and literary context for The Glass Menagerie.
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