Biographical Context SND
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- Created on: 22-05-18 21:26
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- Biographical context SND
- born in Mississippi 1911
- Rose
- "we had no deaths but slowly... something was happening much uglier & more terrible than death
- diagnosed with what now call schizophrenia at 18
- subject to extreme, radical form of primitive brain surgery (a pre-frontal lobotomy)
- then consigned to a mental institution till her death in 1996
- Margaret Bradham Thornton suggested "the shadow of what happened to Rose stayed with him"
- she would be a model for >15 characters & her name given to many others
- traumatised with guilt as what he saw as his failure to protect Rose
- Margaret Bradham Thornton suggested "the shadow of what happened to Rose stayed with him"
- then consigned to a mental institution till her death in 1996
- subject to extreme, radical form of primitive brain surgery (a pre-frontal lobotomy)
- Biographical context SND
- born in Mississippi 1911
- Works
- 1944 Glass Menagerie opened to rave reviews & made him an overnight theatrical sensation
- 1947 SND - multi award winning
- decade or so after SND maintained tremendous work rate
- Sweet Bird of Youth 1959
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1955
- '59-'79 wrote 15 new plays, some poetry, a novel & some short stories
- everything he's written is to do with something he's experienced
- despite professional success, personal life always at least bordering on the chaotic & disastrous
- had long rel. with his secretary Frank Merlo
- homosexuality still considered immoral & shocking by mainstream society
- loyally supported him through frequent bouts of clinical depression
- '59-'79 depression his worsened
- '69 brother had to have him temporarily committed to a psychiatric hospital due to his alcoholism & drug addiction
- died alone in a NY hotel '83
- had long rel. with his secretary Frank Merlo
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