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Not about nightingales

Title
Not about nightingales / Tennessee Williams ; edited, with an introduction, by Allean Hale ; foreword by Vanessa Redgrave.
Author
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983.
Publication
New York : New Directions Pub. Corp., ©1998.

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TextRestricted use Berg Coll 22-1977Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Additional Authors
  • Hale, Allean, 1914-2015
  • Redgrave, Vanessa, 1937-
  • Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
  • Frezzolini, Sylvia
  • New Directions Publishing, publisher.
  • James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.
Description
xxvi, 163 pages; 21 cm.
Summary
One of Tennessee Williams's first plays, "Not About Nightingales" portrays the lives of inmates in a Pennsylvania prison who were steamed to death after leading their fellow prisoners on a hunger strike.
Series Statement
New Directions paperbook ; NDP 860
Subject
  • Hunger strikes > Drama
  • Prisons > Drama
  • Prisoners > Abuse of > Drama
  • Prison wardens > Drama
  • Prisoners > Abuse of
  • Prison wardens
  • Hunger strikes
  • Prisons
  • Prisoners
Genre/Form
  • Political plays.
  • Drama.
  • Dust jackets – New York (State) – New York – 1998.
Note
  • "A New Directions book" -- title page.
  • "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Audience (note)
  • NP
Binding (note)
  • bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Sylvia Frezzolini.
Call Number
Berg Coll 22-1977
ISBN
  • 0811213803
  • 9780811213806
  • 0739403958
  • 9780739403952
LCCN
97047779
OCLC
38104610
Author
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983.
Title
Not about nightingales / Tennessee Williams ; edited, with an introduction, by Allean Hale ; foreword by Vanessa Redgrave.
Imprint
New York : New Directions Pub. Corp., ©1998.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
New Directions paperbook ; NDP 860
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Audience
NP Lexile
Binding
Copy in Berg Coll 22-1977 bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Sylvia Frezzolini. NN
Local Note
Copy in Berg Coll 22-1977 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.
Added Author
Hale, Allean, 1914-2015, editor, writer of introduction.
Redgrave, Vanessa, 1937- author of introduction, etc.
Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.
Frezzolini, Sylvia, cover designer.
New Directions Publishing, publisher.
Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.
Javitch, Daniel, donor.
Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.
James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.
Research Call Number
Berg Coll 22-1977
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