Week 11 Disability and Gender (part two) The Glass Menagerie
Instruction: This week, please write thick responses to two questions of the following questions with quotes. Please make sure you engage with the reading by quoting, citing, paraphrasing, then making comments about it specifically.
Tennessee Williams (1944) The Glass Menagerie. New York: New Directions.
1. This text is not only one of the monuments of American drama, but also frequently cited in disability studies. As we discussed in connection with Richard III, actors and directors have quite a bit of freedom to interpret a physical disability when staging a play. What effect might over-playing or under-playing Laura’s mobility impairment have upon the audience?
2. Laura Wingfield has been discussed as a dramatic character with a physical disability. A provocative question: is Laura the only disabled character in The Glass Menagerie? Explain.
3. A few weeks ago we looked at the way the narrator of the Yellow Wall-Paper experiences the intersection of her mental illness (postpartum depression, many of us believe) with the gender, class, and medical systems of her late nineteenth-century America. What are the intersecting identities constructed by the society represented in The Glass Menagerie? Are there corresponding forms of oppression in evidence?
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