I wanna do....a playwrite!

I want to do a playwrite


Great American Proposal

I rember hearing a little about this project as a sophomore from the tiny upper division but I gave it no thought. Then at the start of this year the great American author project was brought up again only this time I gave a lot more thought since this time it was my project. As we talked about this project more and more I thought about it more and more too. I realized that as an actress I had an interest in doing a dramatist. The hard part was finding one who was American I thought of some of the best play I’ve read like The Diary Of Ann Frank which didn’t work and finally thanks to Mr. Wells came across one of the most Americas highest regarded playwrights Thomas Lanier Williams or as he is better know Tennessee Williams.

Tennessee was born on March 26, 1911 and died on February 25, 1983 (a month an a day before his 71st birthday) in Columbus, Mississippi. He is considered a Southern Gothic writer. Southern Gothic is a branch of the Gothic genre. As a kid Tennessee had a disease that paralyzed his legs form almost two years since he couldn’t run around and play he wrote stories and plays. Throught out his childhood his father became abusive towards his wife and kids. While mother encouraged him to write she was also over attentive and too protective. His family life was rumored to be a huge inspiration for his characters and plays. In fact The Glass Menagerie his first big hit was believed to be his life story in the from of a play set during Americas Depression. With a stressful strained mother daughter relationship as a parrot of the relationship between Tennessee’s mother and sister told by the quite son and topped by a reckless father who walked out on his family. Other famous Tennessee Williams plays include The Night Of The Iguana(1955), The Rose Tattoo(1952 dedicated to Frank Merlo his lover ), A Streetcar Named Desire (1948), and Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1955).

Tennessee Williams themes, characters, and plots bring his plays into a sadly sometimes-common family life. The characters in most of his plays are flawed due to their depression family life. Traits in some of his most famous charters are based on his mother, his sister, and himself. The thesis for this paper could be why did Tensse Williams find his messed up family, which was probably a painful subject for him to be such an inspiration for his work.