THEA 1206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Ralph Ellison, August Wilson, Langston Hughes
3 Apr 2017
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As a small child williams suffered from a case of diphtheria. Neglectful father and over-bearing mother in an unhappy marriage: used his dysfunctional family as inspiration in his work. Suffered from alcoholism and bouts of depression: accept him homosexuality, childhood abuse, floundering career. Influenced by: chekhov, shakespeare, emily dickinson, august strindberg. Examples: the glass menagerie (1944, a streetcar named desire (1947, cat on a hot tin roof (1955) Grew up in new york and was of polish-jewish descent. Lots of marriages: 1 mary slattery: he left her june 1956, 2 marilyn monroe: married june 29th 1956 and divorced in 1961, 3 inge morath: married in 1962 until her death in. Huac: house of un-american activities committee: promoted him to write the crucible, called before the court, but refused to give names, found guilty and blacklisted, overturned in 1958, but still hurt his career. All my sons (1947: tony for best author.
