Stopped Rocking and Other Screenplays - Softcover

Tennessee Williams

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811209024 ISBN 13: 9780811209021

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1984

Synopsis

Four film scripts deal with a young male hustler, life in a mental hospital, debutante society in the 1920s, and a St. Louis schoolteacher.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Tennessee Williams's Stopped Rocking and Other Screenplays encompass both the realistic style of 'the early Williams' and the more experimental dramatic devices of many of his 'later' plays.

About the Author:

Tennessee Williams, born Thomas Lanier Williams in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi won Pulitzer Prizes for his dramas, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Other plays include The Glass Menagerie, Summer and Smoke, The Rose Tattoo, Camino Real, Suddenly Last Summer, Sweet Bird of Youth and Night of the Iguana. He also wrote a number of one-act plays, short stories, poems and two novels, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone and Moishe and the Age of Reason. He died in 1983 at the age of 72.

About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0811209024
• ISBN 13: 9780811209021
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400