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The Glass Menagerie

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The Glass Menagerie is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on its author, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister, Laura.

Public Domain (P)2020 Author's Republic Drama & Plays Classics Fiction Family Life World Literature Genre Fiction United States
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Everyone here sounds like cartoon gold-miners. This play is about lower middle-class 1930s St. Louis Missouri, not 1870s wild-west poor-folk; It feels rushed ( not gold-rushed, btw), and hastily portrayed. It seems spoken by a last-minute stand-in narrator when the more carefully chosen speaker, aware of how Mr. Williams originally wrote these characters, called in to cancel.

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