TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: THE GLASS MENAGERIE

Tennessee Williams has left his mark on the American literary scene by his prolific writings in almost every genere-poetry, drama, short story, screenplay writing and journalism. Much feted and honoured for his genius of bringing out in his work the conflict between illusions and reality, Williams has been universally acknowledged, along with Arthur Miller as one of the two greatest American dramatists of the post-world War II era........................... An attempt has been made in this critical study to examine evaluate and assess the text from several angles so as to make it more accessible and comprehensible to students in Indian universities. Shakti Batra is Reader in Department of English, Dyal Singh College (University of Delhi). He has taught at the Kabul University and The International University of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek. He has also been Vice-Principal of Dyal Singh College. Now associated with Surjeet Publications, Batra has to his credit critical studies of Bernard Shaw’s Candida, Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Feodor, Dostoevski’s Crime and Punishment, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of A Death Foretold, Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing, Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Micere Githae Mugo’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathi Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Ernest, William Shakespeare’s Tempest, Wole Soyinka’s Kongi‘s Harvest, and The Lion and the Jewel, William Golding Lord of the Flies.

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