The title of this short play may attract a readers notice. Autodafe is a oneact 1941 play by tennessee williams. Margarita saldivia reche josune sanz santana u elias palomo. A program of the tennessee williamsnew orleans literary festival. It refers to the burning of a heretic by the spanish inquisition. The head is peter kien, a reclusive, internationally renowned.
An inquisition usually began with the public proclamation of a grace period of 40 days. It involved a catholic mass, prayer, a public procession of those found guilty, and a reading of their sentences. Tennessee williams author of more than 24 fulllength plays, including the glass menagerie, a streetcar named desire, cat on a hot tin roof the latter two won pulitzer prizes and the night of the iguana, had a profound effect on the american theater and on american playwrights and actors a reading of an extract from his memoirs. The plot concerns a young postal worker, eloi, whose sexuality is repressed by a rigidly moralistic. Tennessee williamss autodafe is a oneact play collected in the original edition of 27 wagons. Elias canetti divides autodafe into three sections. Written about 1941, autodafe may be labeled a closet drama in that homosexual, gay, and comparable words do not appear. The autobiographical the glass menagerie brought what mr. Tennessee williams 19111983 explores passion with daring honesty, and forged a poetic theatre of raw psychological insight that shattered conventional proprieties and transformed the american stage. Your first rehearsal will be march 27th in the studio theatre.
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