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The Glass Menagerie (CD)

The plot centers on a crippled daughter who lives in a her dream world with a symbolic collection of fragile glass, in vivid contrast to the family's slum apartment.

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  • "The plot centers on a crippled daughter who lives in a her dream world with a symbolic collection of fragile glass, in vivid contrast to the family's slum apartment."@en
  • "A critical interpretation of the play by Tennessee Williams. This is a discussion leader cassette."@en
  • "Few plays have explored the byways of the human heart as poignantly and poetically as Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie""
  • "A self-styled "memory play", in which the remembered world is lived intensely and made completely meaningful. In this play we meet the embattled Wingfield family: Amanda - faded southern bell, abandoned wife, dominating mother, who hopes to match her daughter with an eligible "gentleman caller"; Laura - lame and painfully shy, she evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to a world of make-believe; Tom - sole support of the family, he eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura."@en
  • "A shy, physically handicapped girl seeks escape from her mother's fantasies and from the shabby realities of life."@en
  • "A shy, physically handicapped girl seeks escape from her mother's fantaies and from the shabby reality of life in St. Louis."@en
  • "In this semi-autobiographical play the domineering matriarch of the Wingfield family tries to find a "gentleman caller" for her fragile daughter."@en
  • "Presents the Southern drama of isolation and fantasy."@en
  • "Drama of a abandoned wife who attempts to have her shy daughter marry the man she chooses for her."@en
  • "The play is a self-styled "memory play" in which the remembered world is lived intensely and made completely meaningful."
  • "The only single edition now available of this American classic about a mother obsessed with her disabled daughter."
  • "Drama written in 1945 about a southern family with pretensions to gentility. Centers around the crippled daughter, Laura, who lives in a dream world so full of illusions that she becomes like the pieces in her own glass collection--too fragile to move from the shelf."@en
  • "A strong willed woman attempts to impose her shattered dreams into the life and personality of her shy, reclusive daughter."@en
  • "A strong willed woman attempts to impose her shattered dreams into the life and personality of her shy, reclusive daughter."

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  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Drama"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Domestic drama"@en
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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "American drama"

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  • "The Glass Menagerie (CD)"@en
  • "The glass menagerie"
  • "The glass menagerie"@en
  • "The glass menagerie Tennessee Williams"
  • "Glass menagerie"@en
  • "The Glass Menagerie"
  • "Theatre Guild on the air (Radio program). Glass menagerie"@en
  • "The Glass menagerie"@en
  • "The Glass menagerie"
  • "The Glass Menagerie Read by the cast"@en

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