1.	Eugene Gladstone O’Neill

1.1	Three periods of his works

1.2	Style of writing

1.3

Plays

2.	Tennessee Williams

2.1

His Life

2.2

His Work

2.2.1

The Glass Menagerie

3.	Arthur Miller

3.1

His life

3.2	Style of writing

4.	Edward Albee

4.1

His Life

4.2	Style of writing

4.3

His works

4.3.1

The Sandbox

4.3.2

Who Is Afraid About Virginia Woolf?:

" Tennessee Williams:
(1911 – 1983)
- Thomas Lainer Williams – real name
- His Life: Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus in Mississippi in USA. His father was a salesman, his mother was a puritan and his grandfather was an Episcopal priest. After some time of living on south, the whole family, except grandfather, had moved to St. Louis. This was a shock for Williams, because of his strong relationship to his grandfather and also because of moving from village to big industrial town. After moving Williams had created a strong relationship to his sister, which was heavily ill. He had studied on Mississippi University, in St. Louis he had worked as a manual worker, and then he studied on Washington University in Iowa. He had also worked for one film company. The beginnings of his literary work are alike of beginnings of Eugene O’Neill, but his literal model was in Faulkner and Lawrence. His first important work was The Glass Menagerie (1944) – after publishing this book, he worked as a professional dramatist. Another his work – A Street Car Named Desire (1947) was his major work and as the most of his plays, was filmed. In the same year as A Street Car Named Desire, he had published Summer and Smoke. One of his best comedies is the play The Rose Tattoo (1951). For the drama The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), he received the Pulitzer Prize. Other dramas are for example Orpheus Descending (1957) and The Nigh of the Iguana (1959).
The Glass Menagerie:
- The plot is settled down into one flat in St. Louise. The play is divided into two parts – the preparing on visit and the visit, and has just four actors: Laura, her mother, her brother Tom and one visitor Jim.
- Laura Wingfield is a cripple girl, which lives in small city flat. Her mother is a dreamer, her brother has lot of complexes and Laura has inability to communicate with outer world, so she is spending all her life by cleaning small glass animals in one case.
- Mother forces his son, to find to her daughter some boyfriend. So Tom finds Jim, Laura’s big love from her childhood. But as a boyfriend he is useless, because he already has one girlfriend."