One of Tennessee Williams' most popular plays in a special annotated edition for school and college students. The Glass Menagerie,Tennessee Williams' first great popular success and an autobiographicalplay about his mother and sister, launched the brilliant andcontroversial career of this ground-breaking American playwright. Setin St Louis during the depression era of the 1930s, it is the poignantdrama of a family's gradual disintegration, under pressure both fromoutside and within. A frustrated mother persuades her rebelliousson to provide a 'gentleman caller' for her shy, crippled daughter, buther romantic dreams are shattered by the intervention of harsh reality.This edition provides the author's preferred text, available for thefirst time in the United Kingdom, and includes Williams' essay on theimpact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, 'The Catastrophe ofSuccess', as well as a short section of Williams' own production notes.