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Document Details : Title: De enscenering van het autobiografisch geheugen in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie (1945) Author(s): MERTENS, Mahlu Journal: Spiegel der Letteren Volume: 65 Issue: 2-3 Date: 2023 Pages: 237-256 DOI: 10.2143/SDL.65.2.3292815 Abstract : This article argues that narrative theatre can benefit from an interdisciplinary approach that combines insights from literary studies and theatre studies. It illustrates this point by analyzing the published script for the play The Glass Menagerie (1945) by Tennessee Williams alongside a Dutch staging of the same play by TGA from 2015. It discusses how Williams’s use of extra-literary theatrical means is essential to create a play that represents the subjective, autobiographical memory of its protagonist and narrator Tom. In particular, it looks at cinematic and narrative techniques which the playwright adapts and at the often-neglected function of the projections. To fully grasp the implications of Williams identification of the play as a memory play, a multimodal view is required, this article concludes. |
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