Not About Nightingales (Hardcover, Turtleback School & Library ed.)


Not About Nightingales is remarkable both as the work of an unknown twenty-seven-year-old and as a first play to carry the signature "Tennessee" Williams. The subject matter is a prison scandal which shocked the nation in the mid-thirties when convicts leading a hunger strike in prison were locked in a steam-heated cell and roasted to death. "I have never written anything since that could compete with it in violence and horror",Williams said later about the full-length play he developed in 1938. It shows us the young Williams as a political writer in Depression America; its flashes of lyricism and compelling dialogue presage the great plays Williams was later to write.

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Not About Nightingales is remarkable both as the work of an unknown twenty-seven-year-old and as a first play to carry the signature "Tennessee" Williams. The subject matter is a prison scandal which shocked the nation in the mid-thirties when convicts leading a hunger strike in prison were locked in a steam-heated cell and roasted to death. "I have never written anything since that could compete with it in violence and horror",Williams said later about the full-length play he developed in 1938. It shows us the young Williams as a political writer in Depression America; its flashes of lyricism and compelling dialogue presage the great plays Williams was later to write.

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Imprint

Econo-Clad Books, Div. of American Cos., Inc.

Country of origin

United States

Release date

September 2001

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First published

June 1998

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Dimensions

203 x 133 x 25mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

163

Edition

Turtleback School & Library ed.

ISBN-13

978-0-613-29312-9

Barcode

9780613293129

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LSN

0-613-29312-6



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