The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Vol. 6: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Short Plays

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Vol. 6: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Short Plays

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams  brings together in matching format the plays of one of America’s most influential and innovative dramatists. Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes the original cast listings and production notes for all full-length plays. Now available as a New Directions paperbook,  Volume VI: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Short Plays , contains sixteen one-act plays in Williams’ early, more realistic style––eleven from the original 1953 edition of  27 Wagons , two added to the 1966 paper edition of the same title, and three added to the 1981 cloth edition of  Volume VI . Not only were the short plays the necessary seedbed for many of Williams’ longer plays; they were also crucial experiments in both theme and style. Williams envisioned these short plays for small theatre productions, which he hoped would be “an irritant in the shell of their community.” The Theatre of Tennessee Williams brings together in matching format the plays of one of America's most influential and innovative dramatists. Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes the original cast listings and production notes for all full-length plays.   Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) was America’s most influential playwright. Readers have devoured his poetry, essays, short stories, and letters, as well as his fantastic late plays, his remarkable corpus of one-acts, and his greatest plays― The Glass Menagerie , A Streetcar Named Desire , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , The Night of the Iguana , The Rose Tattoo , Suddenly Last Summer , and Camino Real . Williams is a cornerstone of New Directions―we publish everything he wrote. He is also our single bestselling author. Used Book in Good Condition