{"id":48,"date":"2010-10-02T21:30:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T01:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/2010\/10\/02\/first-thoughts-on-dialogue-and-research\/"},"modified":"2010-10-02T21:30:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T01:30:40","slug":"first-thoughts-on-dialogue-and-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/2010\/10\/02\/first-thoughts-on-dialogue-and-research\/","title":{"rendered":"First Thoughts on Dialogue and Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey guys!<br \/>\nHere are some main points about the reviews\/production history:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First opened on December 3rd, 1947 at the Barrymore Theatre (had succesful tryouts in Boston, New Haven and Philadelphia)<\/li>\n<li>Thomas P. Adler: &#8220;may arguably be the finest play ever written for the American stage&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Howard Barnes: Williams is the &#8220;O&#8217;Neill of the present&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>855 performances\u00a0in the first two years<\/li>\n<li>1st play to ever receive the Pulitzer, Donaldson and New York Drama Critics&#8217; Circle awards<\/li>\n<li>Received both as feminist and celebratory of masculinity; Marxist-inspired interpretations claim a message of political revolt<\/li>\n<li>Character of Blanche has been widely debated over; hailed as Williams&#8217; &#8220;finest creation,&#8221; and a &#8220;sexual Joan of Arc,&#8221; but noted for her contradictions and refusal to accept reality<\/li>\n<li>Williams documented as identifying closely with both Blanche and Stanley, &#8220;I was and still am Blanche, but I have a Stanley side in me, too.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some preliminary biographical info:<\/p>\n<p>Born Thomas Lanier Williams III in Columbus, Mississippi in 1911<br \/>\nDied 1983, apparently alcohol-related, in New York, at 71<br \/>\nFather C.C. Williams was a traveling salesman, mother Edwina had a history of nervous breakdowns<br \/>\nOlder sister Rose (very close), younger brother Dakin<br \/>\nMoved to St. Louis in 1918, afterwards moved around a lot<br \/>\nPicked on at school, shy, always loved writing<br \/>\nUniversity of Missouri to study journalism, started writing plays &#8211; influenced by Robert Penn Warren, William Faulkner, Allen Tate, Thomas Wolfe<br \/>\nDad made him drop out and work at a shoe factory for 3 years, had a nervous breakdown, went to Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Iowa<br \/>\nRose had a prefrontal lobotomy, institutionalized for the rest of her life<br \/>\nGrant to study playwriting at the New School in New York &#8211; started to be influenced by Anton Chekov and poet Hart Crane<br \/>\n1944 &#8211; The Glass Menagerie opened in New York, won New York Drama Critics&#8217; Circle Award<br \/>\n1947 &#8211; A Streetcar Named Desire<br \/>\n1955 &#8211; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Critics&#8217; Circle and Pulitzer)<br \/>\nCommon themes: alcoholism, depression, desire, loneliness, insanity, nostalgia<br \/>\nThe South<br \/>\nBeing openly homosexual<br \/>\nRealism in the wake of the Depression and World War II<br \/>\nWrote 25 full length plays, 5 made into movies, 5 screenplays, over 70 one-acts, hundreds of short stories, 2 novels and a memoir<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/assets.cambridge.org\/97805216\/23445\/sample\/9780521623445wsc00.pdf, Sparknotes, Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey guys! Here are some main points about the reviews\/production history: First opened on December 3rd, 1947 at the Barrymore Theatre (had succesful tryouts in Boston, New Haven and Philadelphia) Thomas P. Adler: &#8220;may arguably be the finest play ever written for the American stage&#8221; Howard Barnes: Williams is the &#8220;O&#8217;Neill of the present&#8221; 855 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/2010\/10\/02\/first-thoughts-on-dialogue-and-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Thoughts on Dialogue and Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hodge-dialog-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}