Den Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III, gebuer de 26. Mäerz1911 zu Columbus, Mississippi a gestuerwen de 25. Februar1983 zu New York, war en US-amerikaneschen Theaterschrëftsteller, deem säi Wierk haut zu den engleschsproochege Klassiker vum 20. Joerhonnert gezielt gëtt.
Nodeem e jorelaang weider kee grousse Succès hat, hat en 1944 den Duerchbroch mat The Glass Menagerie. E groussen Erfolleg hat en och an de Joren duerno, absënns mat Stécker wéi A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, The Rose Tattoo, The Night of the Iguana, Suddenly Last Summer a Sweet Bird of Youth. An den 1960er Joren huet hien en neie Stil pausprobéiert, deen awer net sou gutt beim Publikum ukomm ass. Alkohol- and Drogenofhängegkeet haten zousätzlech e schlechten Impakt op säi spéidert Schafen.[1]
De Williams huet eng Rëtsch vu senge bekanntste Stécker fir de Kino adaptéiert, wou se mat Stare wéi Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor oder Katharine Hepburn mat Succès verfilmt goufen. Hien huet ausserdeem Kuerzgeschichten, Gedichter, Essayen a Memoire geschriwwen.
Vill vu senge Stécker hunn autobiographesch Elementer, an thematiséieren tëschemënschlech Relatiounen a psychesch Stéierungen.
Wierker
Theaterstécker
Apprentice plays
Candles to the Sun (1936)
Fugitive Kind (1937)
Spring Storm (1937)
Me Vaysha (1937)
Not About Nightingales (1938)
Battle of Angels (1940)
I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix (1941)
You Touched Me (1945)
Stairs to the Roof (1947)
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
Summer and Smoke (1948)
The Rose Tattoo (1951)
Camino Real (1953)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
Orpheus Descending (1957)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1958)
Sweet Bird of Youth (1959)
Period of Adjustment (1960)
The Night of the Iguana (1961)
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (1962, nei Versioun vu Summer and Smoke)
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963)
The Mutilated (1965)
The Seven Descents of Myrtle (1968, aka Kingdom of Earth)
In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (1969)
Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis? (1969)
Small Craft Warnings (1972)
The Two-Character Play (1973)
Out Cry (1973, Neiversioun vun The Two-Character Play)
The Red Devil Battery Sign (1975)
This Is (An Entertainment) (1976)
Vieux Carré (1977)
A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (1979)
Clothes for a Summer Hotel (1980)
The Notebook of Trigorin (1980)
Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981)
A House Not Meant to Stand (1982)
In Masks Outrageous and Austere (1983)
Romaner
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1950, gouf 1961 an nees 2003 verfilmt)
Moise and the World of Reason (1975)
D'Vivien Leigh als Blanche DuBois an der Verfilmung vun A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Dréibicher
The Glass Menagerie (1950)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
The Rose Tattoo (1955)
Baby Doll (1956)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
The Fugitive Kind (1959)
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966)
Boom! (1968)
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2009; Dréibuch vun 1957)
Kuerzgeschichten
The Vengeance of Nitocris (1928)
The Field of Blue Children (1939)
The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin (1951)
Hard Candy: A Book of Stories (1954)
Three Players of a Summer Game and Other Stories (1960)
The Knightly Quest: a Novella and Four Short Stories (1966)
One Arm and Other Stories (1967)
"One Arm"
"The Malediction"
"The Poet"
"Chronicle of a Demise"
"Desire and the Black Masseur"
"Portrait of a Girl in Glass"
"The Important Thing"
"The Angel in the Alcove"
"The Field of Blue Children"
"The Night of the Iguana"
"The Yellow Bird"
Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed: a Book of Stories (1974)
Tent Worms (1980)
It Happened the day the Sun Rose, and Other Stories (1981)
Eenakter
De Williams huet iwwer 70 Eeenakter geschriwwen. Se koumen z.D. an dëse Sammelbänn eraus:
American Blues (1948)
Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays
Dragon Country: a book of one-act plays (1970)
The Traveling Companion and Other Plays
27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays (1946 and 1953)
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume VI]]
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume VII]]
Gedichter
In the Winter of Cities (1956)
Androgyne, Mon Amour (1977)
Literatur
Gross, Robert F., ed. Tennessee Williams: A Casebook. Routledge (2002). ISBN 0-8153-3174-6.
Leverich, Lyle. Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams. W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition (1997). ISBN 0-393-31663-7.
Saddik, Annette. The Politics of Reputation: The Critical Reception of Tennessee Williams' Later Plays (London: Associated University Presses, 1999).
Spoto, Donald. The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams. Da Capo Press (Reprint, 1997). ISBN 0-306-80805-6.
