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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.
- Tennessee Williams, 寛厚 浅田
- 1945
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- Tennessee Williams, 寛厚 浅田
- 1945
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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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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The Glass Menagerie follows Tom’s memories of the time period leading up to his eventual abandonment of his mother and sister. As he remembers the intolerable situation he once lived in, with a boring job that he had to take on in order to be nearly the sole breadwinner for his overbearing, delusional mother and his timid, ghost-like sister ...
