The Glass Menagerie
Author: Tennessee Williams
Harold Bloom’s introduction suggests Tennessee Williams is the most literary of American dramatists. Examine The Glass Menagerie with some of the best criticism written about it, including Catastrophe without Violence, The Southern Gentlewoman, and Celebration of a Certain Courage. The title, Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Moder….Read More
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