| LC control no. | no2010147180 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. Glass menagerie |
| See also | Author: Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 Adapted as motion picture (work): Glass menagerie (Motion picture : 1950) Adapted as motion picture (work): Glass menagerie (Motion picture : 1987) |
| Other standard no. | 176099150 http://viaf.org/viaf/176099150 http://dbpedia.org/resource/The_Glass_Menagerie Q678832 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q678832 FRBNF15020126 http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb150201267 07427368X https://www.idref.fr/07427368X 04230010X http://d-nb.info/gnd/4230010-1 3932 |
| Form of work | Drama Memory plays Autobiographical drama One-act plays |
| Beginning date | 1944 |
| Place of origin | United States |
| Found in | The glass menagerie, 1950. His The glass menagerie, 1945 Wikipedia, May 2, 2017 (The Glass Menagerie is a five-character memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944; Two Hollywood movie versions of The Glass Menagerie have been produced: 1950, directed by Irving Rapper; 1987, directed by Paul Newman; Akale (2004), Indian adaptation of the play, filmed in the Malayalam language; Iranian film Here Without Me (2011) is also an adaptation of the play, in a contemporary Iranian setting; first radio adaptation of the play was performed on Theatre Guild on the Air in 1951; 1953 adaptation appeared on the radio series Best Plays; 1954 adaptation on Lux Radio Theatre; in 1964 Caedmon Records produced an LP version of the Glass Menagerie as the initial issue of its theatre series; first television adaptation was broadcast on December 8, 1966, as part of CBS Playhouse; second television adaptation was broadcast on ABC on December 16, 1973; parodied by Christopher Durang in a short one-act titled For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls; Ryan Landry and The Gold Dust Orphans did a parody called The Plexiglass Menagerie) Britannica online, May 2, 2017 (The Glass Menagerie, one-act drama by Tennessee Williams, produced in 1944 and published in 1945. The Glass Menagerie launched Williams's career and is considered by some critics to be his finest drama) SparkNotes website, May 2, 2017: Literature Study Guides > The Glass Menagerie (The Glass Menagerie; Tennessee Williams; a memory play, and its action is drawn from the memories of the narrator, Tom Wingfield; around 1941, Williams began the work that would become The Glass Menagerie. The play evolved from a short story entitled "Portrait of a Girl in Glass," which focused more completely on Laura than the play does. In December of 1944, The Glass Menagerie was staged in Chicago; in March of 1945, the play moved to Broadway, where it won the prestigious New York Drama Critics' Circle Award; highly personal, explicitly autobiographical play) |
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