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Many Loves and Other Plays: the Collected Plays of William Carlos Williams (New Directions Paperbook)
William Carlos Williams
Many Loves and Other Plays: the Collected Plays of William Carlos Williams (New Directions Paperbook)
William Carlos Williams
For this volume, originally published in cloth in 1961, William Carlos Williams collected, and revised, four full-length plays and the libretto of an opera on George Washington. As might be expected of the man who did most in our time to create a new and truly "American" idiom for poetry, Dr. Williams' writing for the stage challenges producers and actors to extend the range of modern drama.
Many Loves, which ran for nearly a year (1959) in repertory at New York's famous Living Theatre, explores four varieties of human attachment, while A Dream of Love, first produced in 1949, is a penetrating and poetic treatment of infidelity and marriage. Tituba's Children, written three years before Arthur Miller's Crucible, is a dramatic study of witch-hunting ? the Salem trials of 1692 and McCarthyism in the 1950's. The First President was first published in 1936. It is preceded by a long introduction on the theory of opera, the role of music, and the problems of realizing a historic figure on the stage. The Cure (1960) reminds us that Dr. Williams was for forty-two years a practicing physician. Its theme, developed in a very unusual situation, is the relationship between nurse and patient.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | January 17, 1961 |
ISBN13 | 9780811202329 |
Publishers | New Directions |
Pages | 437 |
Dimensions | 130 × 200 × 30 mm · 399 g |
Language | English |
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