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Vieux Carre

By Tennessee Williams

Vieux Carre Social Sciences

Vieux Carre

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The drama takes it form from the shifting scenes of memory, and Williams's surrogate self invites us to focus, in turn, on the various inhabitants or his dilapidated rooming house in the Vieux Carré: the comically desperate landlady, Mrs. Wire; Jane, a properly brought-up young woman from New York making at last grab at pleasure with Tye, the vulgar but appealing strip-joint barker; two decayed gentlewomen politely starving in the garret; and the dying painter Nightingale, who tries to teach the young writer something about love--both of the body and of the heart. This is a play about the education of the artist, and education in loneliness and despair, in giving and not giving, but most of all in seeing, hearing, feeling, and learning that "writers are shameless spies," who pay dearly for their knowledge and who cannot forget. Building on two decades of Williams scholarship since Vieux Carré was originally published, Robert Bray, editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, has provided a new introduction for this edition, giving the most authoritative account yet of its background and genesis.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
116
Release Date:
2000-07-01
Publication Date:
2000-10-17
Publisher:
Blue Guides Limited of London
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0811214605
ISBN13:
9780811214605
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
145 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
202 cm
Thickness:
9 cm
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