Vieux Carre

by Tennessee Williams

Book Overview

The drama takes it form from the shifting scenes of memory, and Williams's surrogate self invites us to focus, in turn, on the various inhabitants or his dilapidated rooming house in the Vieux Carr the comically desperate landlady, Mrs. Wire; Jane, a properly brought-up young woman from New York making at last grab at pleasure with Tye, the vulgar but appealing strip-joint barker; two decayed gentlewomen politely starving in the garret; and the dying...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811214605
• ISBN13: 9780811214605
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

A Wonderful Later Play

*Vieux Carre* is probably the finest play of Williams' "Late" period--and it's terrific, though unfairly neglected. It's much more like the earlier work in terms of a "straight" narrative, and as good as it is I think we'll be seeing many more productions of it in the future.