Williams's production notes and stage directions emphasize the striving for what Williams described as a "new plastic theater." ... Williams sought the opposite in The Glass Menagerie: truth disguised as illusion. ... Tennessee Williams (born Thomas Lanier Williams) was an aspiring poet in St. ... She was an early recipient of a pre-frontal lobotomy in 1937; Williams never forgave his mother for ordering the procedure. The tragedy of Rose had a profound effect on Williams's writing throughout his career. ...

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