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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams
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Description for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Paperback. In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, a Southern family meet to celebrate Big Daddy's birthday but are fractured by sexual frustration, repressed love, greed and his impending death. This Student Edition provides an extensive introduction and notes by Philip C. Kolin, a world authority on Williams. Series: Student Editions. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 176.
In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof a Southern family meet to celebrate 'Big Daddy' Pollit's birthday: Gooper with his wife and children, his brother Brick - an ageing, broken football star - and his wife Maggie. But as the party unfolds the facade of a happy family gathering is fractured by sexual frustration, repressed love, and greed in the light of their father's impending death. This Student Edition provides an extensive introduction and notes by Philip C. Kolin, a world authority on Williams. The introduction includes: a chronology of Williams' life and times; a summary of the plot, commentary ... Read more
In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof a Southern family meet to celebrate 'Big Daddy' Pollit's birthday: Gooper with his wife and children, his brother Brick - an ageing, broken football star - and his wife Maggie. But as the party unfolds the facade of a happy family gathering is fractured by sexual frustration, repressed love, and greed in the light of their father's impending death. This Student Edition provides an extensive introduction and notes by Philip C. Kolin, a world authority on Williams. The introduction includes: a chronology of Williams' life and times; a summary of the plot, commentary ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
Series
Student Editions
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408114391
SKU
9781408114391
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948 and for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955. In addition, The Glass Menagerie (1945) and The Night of the Iguana (1961) received New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards. Philip C. Kolin is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi, ... Read more
Reviews for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
'Methuen Drama's series...is consistently setting a high standard for a specialized market...(this) new release of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, edited by Philip C. Kolin, is a particularly representative example of what is best about Methuen's series.' Kolin...takes full advantage of Methuen's stylistic template for the series, with excellent supporting sections...' Students and teachers, not to mention theatrical practitioners, ... Read more