Mister Paradise

And Other One-Act Plays

David Roessel, Tennessee Williams, Nicholas Moschovakis

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Penguin
27 April 2006

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Series: Penguin Modern Classics

First Modern Classics publication of Tennessee Williams's many one-act plays

The greatest playwright of the American South, Tennessee Williams used his talent throughout his life to create brief plays exploring many of the themes that dominated his best-known works. Here, thirteen never-before-published one-act dramas reveal some of his most poignant and hilarious characters. From the indefatigable, witty and tough drag queens of And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens to the disheartened poet Mister Paradise, and the extravagant mistress in The Pink Bedroom, these are tales of isolated figures struggling against a cruel world, who refuse to lose sight of their dreams.

By: David Roessel, Tennessee Williams
Edited by: Nicholas Moschovakis
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9780141188423
ISBN 10: 0141188421
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 27 April 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was one of the most prominent playwrights in United States after World War II. Williams's major play, A Streetcal Named Desire (1947), won a Pulitzer Prize, and established him as an major American dramatist. Williams received a Pulitzer Prize also for CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1955), about the moral decay of a Southern family.

Reviews for Mister Paradise: And Other One-Act Plays

"""Summer at the Lake"" shows the young author contemplating his restlessness and toxic love of his overbearing and manipulative mother. --John Lahr Kudos to Nicholas Rand Moschovakis and David E. Roessel for locating and so ably editing these firecrackers. --Philip C. Kolin The plays have an immediacy and spontaneity that make them akin to snapshots. --Olivia Jane Smith Recommended reading."