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Published 2010. Art. Tennessee Williams attaches great emphasis to the poetic quality of his drama and contributes to the development of the dramatic form, poetic realism, by injecting the elements and spirit of poetry into every aspect of his dramaturgy.
By using a poetic language that gives word the form and concretises the abstract, Tennessee Williams liberated the American stage from the constraints of realism. To give the truth in the pleasant disguise of an illusion, ‘the opposite of a stage magician’ had to reconstitute heartfelt experiences into artful experiences.
playwrights to move thus beyond realism toward a new poetry of the theater, but today its chief figure is Tennessee Williams. While T.S. Eliot thought that the poetic drama should be written in verse, his concept regarding the effect dramatic verse should produce coincided with how Williams used language in his plays.
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Oct 13, 2020 · Tennessee Williams ‘s (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), is generally regarded as his best. Initial reaction was mixed, but there would be little argument now that it is one of the most powerful plays in the modern theater. Like The Glass Menagerie, it concerns, primarily, a man and two women and a ...
difficult it has been for critics to categorise Tennessee Williams' dramatic oeuvre, especially in respect to "Realism," using specific phrases. However, it is evident from reading the playwright's production notes that his purpose was to stray from the dramatic conventions of descriptive realism in his 1944 play The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams’s style is often referred to as poetic realism or poetic expressionism. Expressionism is a part of the modernist movement in art and literature, where the expression of emotion or emotional experience takes precedence over the materialistic depiction of physical reality.
Tennessee Williams’s style is often referred to as poetic realism or poetic expressionism. Expressionism is a part of the modernist movement in art and literature, where the expression of emotion or emotional experience takes precedence over the materialistic depiction of physical reality.
