The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays
The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays is a collection of 15 plays, seven of them previously unpublished, by American playwright Tennessee Williams. Published by New Directions in New York City in 2011, Williams' scholar Thomas Keith edited the volume and provided the critical notes while playwright Terrence McNally, winner of four Tony Awards, wrote the foreword.
Ten of the plays, composed between 1936 and 1941, predate Williams' first public success in 1944 with The Glass Menagerie and may be accounted apprentice works. Other plays collected here are one-act sketches or studies for later full-length plays: "The Pretty Trap" (1944) for The Glass Menagerie, "Interior: Panic" (1946) for A Streetcar Named Desire, "Kingdom of Earth" (1967) for The Seven Descents of Myrtle, "I Never Get Dressed Till After Dark on Sundays" (1973) for Vieux Carré, and "Some Problems for the Moose Lodge" (1980) for A House Not Meant to Stand.
Plays
- "At Liberty"
- "The Magic Tower"
- "Me, Vashya"
- "Curtains for the Gentleman"
- "In Our Profession"
- "Every Twenty Minutes"
- "Honor the Living"
- "The Case of the Crushed Petunias"
- "Moony's Kid Don't Cry"
- "The Dark Room"
- "The Pretty Trap"
- "Interior: Panic"
- "Kingdom of Earth"
- "I Never Get Dressed Till After Dark on Sundays"
- "Some Problems for the Moose Lodge"
See also
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- Candles to the Sun (1936)
- Spring Storm (1937)
- Fugitive Kind (1937)
- Not About Nightingales (1938)
- Battle of Angels (1940)
- Auto-da-Fé (1941)
- The Glass Menagerie (1944)
- You Touched Me! (1945)
- Stairs to the Roof (1947)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
- Summer and Smoke (1948)
- The Rose Tattoo (1951)
- Camino Real (1953)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
- Orpheus Descending (1957)
- Suddenly Last Summer (1958)
- Sweet Bird of Youth (1959)
- Period of Adjustment (1960)
- The Night of the Iguana (1961)
- The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963)
- The Seven Descents of Myrtle (1968)
- In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (1969)
- Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis? (1969)
- Out Cry (1971)
- Small Craft Warnings (1972)
- The Two-Character Play (1973)
- The Red Devil Battery Sign (1975)
- This Is (An Entertainment) (1976)
- Vieux Carré (1977)
- A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (1979)
- Clothes for a Summer Hotel (1980)
- The Notebook of Trigorin (1981)
- Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981)
- A House Not Meant to Stand (1982)
- In Masks Outrageous and Austere (1983)
- The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1950)
- Moise and the World of Reason (1975)
collections
- Hard Candy: A Book of Stories (1954)
- Three Players of a Summer Game and Other Stories (1960)
- The Knightly Quest: a Novella and Four Short Stories (1966)
- One Arm and Other Stories (1967)
- Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed: a Book of Stories (1974)
- The Glass Menagerie (1950)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
- The Rose Tattoo (1955)
- Baby Doll (1956)
- Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
- The Fugitive Kind (1959)
- Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966)
- Boom! (1968)
- The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (1957, filmed 2008)
- "The Catastrophe of Success" (1947)
- "A Streetcar Named Success" (1947)
- In the Winter of Cities (1956)
- Androgyne, Mon Amour (1977)
- The Glass Menagerie (1950)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
- The Rose Tattoo (1955)
- Baby Doll (1956)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
- Suddenly Last Summer (1959)
- The Fugitive Kind (1960)
- Summer and Smoke (1961)
- The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (1961)
- Period of Adjustment (1962)
- Sweet Bird of Yourth (1962)
- The Night of the Iguana (1964)
- This Property Is Condemned (1966)
- Boom! (1968)
- Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970)
- The Glass Menagerie (1987)
- The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008)
- Three by Tennessee (1958)
- The Glass Menagerie (1966)
- Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966)
- The Glass Menagerie (1973)
- The Migrants (1974)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1984)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1984)
- Sweet Bird of Youth (1989)
- Orpheus Descending (1990)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1995)
- The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003)