No love can handle so much lacking: an analysis of The Magic Tower, by Tennessee Williams

• Autor(a) principal: Flores, Fulvio Torres
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciLangCult/article/view/24687
• topic: the great depression; one-act play; socio-historical analysis; USA playwriting.; grande depressão; peça em um ato; análise sócio-histórica; dramaturgia norte-americana.; Literatura

Tennessee Williams is renowned by his canonical full-length plays written and first performed during de 1940s and 1950s. However, he wrote a great number of interesting one-act plays before, during and after this period. This article discusses the play The Magic Tower, written in the 1930s, and intends to show how important socio-historical issues are present in the play, particularly because at that moment the United States was facing the Great Depression, a severe economic crisis whose origin was the crash of the New York Stock Exchange in 1929. Moreover, the article also discusses the one-act play structure for that purpose.