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.
- Author
- Tennessee Williams
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 163
- Publisher
- Turtleback Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780613293129
- Genres
- plays, theatre, drama, fiction, classics
- Release date
- 1998
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