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Fugitive Kind by Tennessee Williams (2001, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-100811214729
ISBN-139780811214728
eBay Product ID (ePID)1872306
Product Key Features
Book TitleFugitive Kind
Number of Pages128 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, Literary, American / General
Publication Year2001
GenreDrama, Fiction
AuthorTennessee Williams
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight6.3 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN00-067321
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal812/.54
SynopsisFugitive Kind , one of Tennessee Williams's earliest plays, is one of his richest in dramatic material. Written in 1937 when the playwright was still Thomas Lanier Williams, Fugitive Kind introduces the character who will inhabit most of his later plays: the marginal man or woman who, through no personal fault, is a misfit in society but who demonstrates an admirable will to survive. Signature Tennessee Williams' characters, situations, and even the title (which was used as The Fugitive Kind for the 1960 film based on Orpheus Descending ) have their genesis here. At age twenty-six, Williams was still learning his craft and this, his second full-length play, shows his debt to sources as diverse as thirties gangster films ( The Petrified Forest, Winterset ) and Romeo and Juliet. Fugitive Kind , with its star-crossed lovers and big city slum setting, takes place in a flophouse on the St. Louis waterfront in the shadow of Eads Bridge, where Williams spent Saturdays away from his shoe factory job and met his characters: jobless wayfarers on the dole, young writers and artists of the WPA, even gangsters and G-men. Fugitive Kind was also Williams's second play to be produced by The Mummers, a St. Louis theatre group devoted to drama of social protest. Called "vital and absorbing" by a contemporary review in The St. Louis Star-Times , this play reveals the young playwright's own struggle between his radical-socialist sympathies and his poetic inclinations, and signals his future reputation as our most compassionate lyric dramatist., 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.
LC Classification NumberPS3545.I5365F84 2001
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