OrpheusEurydice1.0352b_TennesseeWilliams

OrpheusEurydice1.0352b_TennesseeWilliams

OGCMA s.v. "Orpheus and Eurydice"

Tennessee Williams Orpheus Descending, (1957), stage drama, revision of Battle of Angels, symbolic modern recasting of the Orpheus legend, first performed 21 Mar 1957, Martin Beck Theatre, New York.

Williams approached the Orpheus theme in Battle of Angels (1940)=1.0352a, "Orpheus Descending", poem in In the Winter of Cities (1955) =2.0352, the revised drama, Orpheus Descending (1957)=1.0352b, and in his co-authored screenplay of The Fugitive Kind (1960) =2.0352b.

The image at right is published in The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams, ed. by M.C. Roudané (CUP, 1997), p. 12.

Maureen Stapleton and Cliff Robertson embrace while Graham Denton in a robe approaches in "Orpheus Descending" 1957

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OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
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