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Instructors: Dr. Claudia Görg
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.123
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
8,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 45
Registration group: AS 123
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
Thomas Lanier Williams, better known as Tennessee Williams, is one of the most acclaimed American playwrights and certainly the most prominent playwright from the South. Williams, who was born in the South and spent his early childhood in Mississippi, wrote many plays that are set in the South and reflect a Southern society that is gradually decaying and vanishing. Willimas's fame, however, cannot only be attributed to his achievements as a Southern writer but also to his mastery of the psychological drama.
In this course we will analyze the innovations that helped Williams to compose psychological dramas. Since Williams took up the same topic and developed it in various literary forms, we will also look at examples of his short stories and one-act plays and discuss the relationship between content and form.
Reading:
Drama:
The Glass Menagerie
A Streetcar Named Desire
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Night of the Iguana
One-act Plays
Mister Paradise
Why Do you Smoke So Much, Lily
Stories:
"Portrait of a Girl in Glass"
"The Night of the Iguana"
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