No love can handle so much lacking: an analysis of The Magic Tower, by Tennessee Williams
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https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v37i3.24687Keywords:
the great depression, one-act play, socio-historical analysis, USA playwriting.Abstract
Tennessee Williams is renowned by his canonical full-length plays written and first performed during de 1940s and 1950s. However, he wrote a great number of interesting one-act plays before, during and after this period. This article discusses the play The Magic Tower, written in the 1930s, and intends to show how important socio-historical issues are present in the play, particularly because at that moment the United States was facing the Great Depression, a severe economic crisis whose origin was the crash of the New York Stock Exchange in 1929. Moreover, the article also discusses the one-act play structure for that purpose.Downloads
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2015-07-01
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No love can handle so much lacking: an analysis of The Magic Tower, by Tennessee Williams. (2015). Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture, 37(3), 305-313. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v37i3.24687
