Manyebook

Not About Nightingales

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.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 163
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780613293129
  • Genres
  • plays, theatre, drama, fiction, classics
  • Release date
  • 1998