{"id":79,"date":"2010-10-17T22:25:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T02:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/2010\/10\/17\/tennessee-williams-life-leading-up-to-streetcar\/"},"modified":"2010-10-17T22:25:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T02:25:52","slug":"tennessee-williams-life-leading-up-to-streetcar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/2010\/10\/17\/tennessee-williams-life-leading-up-to-streetcar\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Williams Life Leading up to Streetcar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
1911<\/strong><\/font><\/td>\nMarch 26<\/font><\/td>\nThomas Lanier Williams is born in Columbus, Mississippi.<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1927<\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n <\/td>\nWilliams gets his first taste of literary fame, placing third in a national essay contest sponsored by The Smart Set <\/em>magazine.<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1929<\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n <\/td>\nHe is admitted to the University of Missouri where he sees a production of Henrik Ibsen<\/a>‘s Ghosts<\/em> and decides to become a playwright.<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1931<\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n <\/td>\nHis father forces him to withdraw from school and work in a St. Louis shoe factory where he meets a young man named Stanley Kowalski who will later resurface as a character in A Streetcar Named Desire<\/em>.<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1937<\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n <\/td>\nTwo of his plays, Candles to the Sun<\/em> and The Fugitive Kind<\/em>, are produced by Mummers of St. Louis.<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1938<\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n <\/td>\nWilliams graduates from the University of Iowa with a bachelor of arts degree.<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1939<\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n <\/td>\nHe moves to New Orleans and changes his name from “Tom” to “Tennessee” which was the state of his father’s birth.<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\nHe receives a $1,000 Rockefeller Grant.<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1943<\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n <\/td>\nA prefrontal lobotomy is performed on Williams’ sister Rose who had long suffered from mental illness. The operation, however, is a failure and leaves Rose incapacitated for the remainder of her life. Tennessee never forgives his parents for allowing the operation.<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1944<\/strong><\/font><\/td>\nDecember 26<\/font><\/td>\nThe Glass Menagerie<\/em> premieres at the Lyric Theatre in Chicago and enjoys a successful run.<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1945<\/strong><\/font><\/td>\nMarch 31<\/font><\/td>\nThe Glass Menagerie<\/em> moves to the Playhouse Theatre on Broadway, earning Williams the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for best play of the season.<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1947<\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n <\/td>\nWilliams meets and falls in love with Frank Merlo.<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\nDecember 3<\/font><\/td>\nA Streetcar Named Desire<\/em> opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway, earning Williams his first Pulitzer Prize and establishing him as one of the top dramatists of the American theatre.<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1911 March 26 Thomas Lanier Williams is born in Columbus, Mississippi. 1927   Williams gets his first taste of literary fame, placing third in a national essay contest sponsored by The Smart Set magazine. 1929   He is admitted to the University of Missouri where he sees a production of Henrik Ibsen‘s Ghosts and decides … Continue reading Tennessee Williams Life Leading up to Streetcar<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":834,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","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\/79","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\/834"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}