{"product_id":"fugitive-kind-9780811214728","title":"Fugitive Kind","description":"\u003ci\u003eFugitive Kind\u003c\/i\u003e, one of Tennessee Williams's earliest plays, is one of his richest in dramatic material. Written in 1937 when the playwright was still Thomas Lanier Williams, \u003ci\u003eFugitive Kind\u003c\/i\u003e introduces the character who will inhabit most of his later plays: the marginal man or woman who, through no personal fault, is a misfit in society but who demonstrates an admirable will to survive. Signature Tennessee Williams' characters, situations, and even the title (which was used as \u003ci\u003eThe Fugitive Kind\u003c\/i\u003e for the 1960 film based on \u003ci\u003eOrpheus Descending\u003c\/i\u003e) have their genesis here. At age twenty-six, Williams was still learning his craft and this, his second full-length play, shows his debt to sources as diverse as thirties gangster films (\u003ci\u003eThe Petrified Forest, Winterset\u003c\/i\u003e) and \u003ci\u003eRomeo and Juliet. Fugitive Kind\u003c\/i\u003e, with its star-crossed lovers and big city slum setting, takes place in a flophouse on the St. Louis waterfront in the shadow of Eads Bridge, where Williams spent Saturdays away from his shoe factory job and met his characters: jobless wayfarers on the dole, young writers and artists of the WPA, even gangsters and G-men. \u003ci\u003eFugitive Kind\u003c\/i\u003e was also Williams's second play to be produced by The Mummers, a St. Louis theatre group devoted to drama of social protest. Called \"vital and absorbing\" by a contemporary review in \u003ci\u003eThe St. Louis Star-Times\u003c\/i\u003e, this play reveals the young playwright's own struggle between his radical-socialist sympathies and his poetic inclinations, and signals his future reputation as our most compassionate lyric dramatist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811214728\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.92h x 5.28w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/18\/2001 pg. 61\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tennessee Williams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44413554196661,"sku":"9780811214728","price":11.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_b96afe50-ecb0-4748-a46e-b6a93ce44b14.jpg?v=1720537615","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/fugitive-kind-9780811214728","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}