The Glass Menagerie

…His real name was Thomas Lanier Williams. Born in Mississippi in the South, he continued to write poetry, plays, and novels during his anxious youth, and his first success was The Glass Menagerie (1944), which he completed while writing a screenplay in Hollywood. It is a lyrical, nostalgic play about a family consisting of a mother who grew up in the South and is chasing her old dreams, an older sister who has a bad leg and is extremely shy, and a younger brother who is a young man of letters. …

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…本名Thomas Lanier Williams。南部，ミシシッピ州に生まれ，不安な青春の中で詩，劇，小説を書き続け，ハリウッドでシナリオを書きながら完成した《ガラスの動物園》(1944)が最初に成功した。南部育ちで昔の夢を追う母，足が悪く極度に内気な姉，文学青年の弟，の一家を描いた抒情的な追憶の劇である。…

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