Theatre Awards Essay Examples

Writing diary entries from Blanche’s point of view about her emotions toward Stanley: A streetcar named desire rationale in part 4 of our English course, we study and analyze famous literary works such as Shakespeare’s “Othello” and Tennessee Williams’s “A Streetcar Named Desire”. For this written task, we have to choose an imaginative way of […]

Writing diary entries from Blanche’s point of view about her emotions toward Stanley: A streetcar named desire rationale in part 4 of our English course, we study and analyze famous literary works such as Shakespeare’s “Othello” and Tennessee Williams’s “A Streetcar Named Desire”. For this written task, we have to choose an imaginative way of […]

On December 26, 1944 while the Battle of the Bulges raged on in Belgium, Tennessee Williams paced the floor in the Civic Theatre in Chicago minutes before the first performance of The Glass Menagerie. Williams had a lot on his mind after the failure that was Battle of Angels four years ago and the mediocrity […]

Tennessee Williams is not only one of the greatest playwright from the South, but also the greatest playwright in the history of American drama. He was born on March 26th, 1911 under the name of Thomas Lanier Williams. As the role of a second child in the family, he had suffered though difficult and troubling […]

Or, if they have been forced to make an adjustment, this adjustment usually hardens and distorts them .. .” (54). Williams is probably best known for A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie, and The Night of the Iguana. The first two received Pulitzer Prizes and each was given […]

The prominence of alcoholism in American literature, at least in the first half of the twentieth century, and the relationship between great authors and alcoholism has become somewhat of a literary cliche. Icons such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, and Jack Kerouac are as famous for their work as they are infamous for […]

The social situation in American south during 1940’s, was very badly affected due to the Second World War. During that period industries were predominant and people were not able to afford the expensive life, so the Americans had to adjust their life or to migrate the country to lead a better life. The women of […]

There are very few moments in modern theatrical history that are truly worth recalling. In 1947, however, Tennessee Williams’ ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ was instrumental in revolutionising the very mindset of the theatrical world. To Williams, the polite drawing room comedy, which was still the staple diet available for the theatregoer, was unrealistic. In response, […]

In A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams creates a complex yet simple network of emotions, which create the characters to perceive themselves as imperfect, with that ideal image of perfect being ones reality. Blanche in particular exposing her dark, fake side in which ones mind is the ideal image of perfection. Many people live their […]

Throughout the Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams uses different techniques to help portray the individual emotions of the characters. Such devices as legends and sound effects build up to create what he called his plastic theatre, and this is evident in this passage from scene six. Williams purposefully portrays Laura as a weak and mild character […]

Unusually for a play, the events in “The Glass Menagerie” are presented to us through the eyes of an individual. As Tom states himself “Being a memory play… it is sentimental, it is not realistic”. When Tennessee Williams wrote the play, the members of his own family hugely influenced his characters, as the play is […]

The opening two scenes of ‘The Glass Menagerie’ by Tennessee Williams show a range of different dramatic devices and imagery. Williams used his writing as a way to escape the reality of the world and became renowned as one of the greatest expressionist playwrights of America. His expressionist style enhances the viewing for the audience […]

In, ‘The Glass Menagerie,’ many of the characters do not manage to efficiently escape life of the Wingfield apartment, consequently the statement of escape being impossible, is a just statement. The incapability to ‘escape’ from their microcosm is visible throughout the scenes. The father, Mr Wingfield, shows our first sense of escapism. A blown up […]

“Just remember what Huey Long said – that every man’s a king- and I’m the king around here” QUELLE!! With this statement Stanley Kowalski, one of the protagonists in “A Streetcar Named Desire” a play published in 1947 by one of the most famous authors of the South Tennessee Williams, the character captures the critical […]

The awakening is a set in the late nineteenth century on the Grand Isle, off the bank of Louisiana, Cheneiere Caminada over the cove from great isle and the city of New Orleans. It begins on the fabulous isle, movement to New Orleans and later closes on the amazing isle. The novel spotlights on the […]