WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE. Typescript. revised and signed, of The Two-Character Play, n.p., n.d. [New York, ca. 1966-67], 97 pages, 4to, mostly the carbon copies on onion-skin paper, plus pencilled holograph title-page by Williams, typed by the playwright, a working draft with extensive pencilled (and some ink) deletions by Williams and with numerous pencilled (a few ink) corrections and revisions by him (about 82 holograph emendations, totalling some 200 words, on 47 of the pages); bound in blue buckram, front cover gilt-lettered: "Original Manuscripts of The Two Character Play...Presented to William D. Glavin."

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WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE. Typescript. revised and signed, of The Two-Character Play, n.p., n.d. [New York, ca. 1966-67], 97 pages, 4to, mostly the carbon copies on onion-skin paper, plus pencilled holograph title-page by Williams, typed by the playwright, a working draft with extensive pencilled (and some ink) deletions by Williams and with numerous pencilled (a few ink) corrections and revisions by him (about 82 holograph emendations, totalling some 200 words, on 47 of the pages); bound in blue buckram, front cover gilt-lettered: "Original Manuscripts of The Two Character Play...Presented to William D. Glavin."

拍品专文

"Williams developed the idea in The Two-Character Play, making the two characters in brother and sister. The play, as he confessed on the title page [of the printed edition], was written 'from the state of lunacy...It is the story of the last six or seven years of the 1960's. The play is about disorientation. These people are as lost as I am. They are two sides of one person'...The Two-Character Play can be read as an attempt to do for himself what neither of his psychoanalysts had been able to do for him. He was trying to recover the goodness, the innocence, the purity he had lost, and he still tended to indentify the loss with the loss of [his sister] Rose"--Ronald Hayman, Tennessee Williams: Everyone Else Is an Audience (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993), p. 203. The Two-Character Play had its world premiere in December 1967 in London. William ("Bill") D. Glavin was a friend, and a paid companion and secretary to Williams during the years 1965-1970.