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HISTORY D.A.R.: Daughters of the American Revolution, founded in 1890 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., is a volunteer women's service organization dedicated to promoting patriotism, preserving American history, and securing America's future through better education for children. The join the D.A.R. prospective members have to be able to prove lineal, blood line descent from an ancestor who aided in achieving American independence. Amanda mentions that she went to the D.A.R. to be inducted as an offi cer. D. H. Lawrence: Amanda and Tom have a disagreement regarding the appropriateness of Tom reading a work by D. H. Lawrence. David Herbert Richards Lawrence was born in 1885 in England. He was an English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic. His collected works represent an extended refl ection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, human sexuality and instinct. Though he has since been lauded for his contribution to D.H. Lawrence literature, in his own day Lawrence's work was widely thought of as pornographic and he endured offi cial persecution and censorship throughout his career. His best known work is Lady Chatterley’s Lover. -adapted from wikipedia Dizzy Dean Dizzy Dean: Jerome Hanna Dean was a Major League baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals (1939-1937) and the Chicago Cubs (1938-1941) and later a well known sportscaster. He was known for his wit, colorful language and for butchering the English language. When Jim is at the Wingfi elds’ house, he looks over the sports pages and notes that “Dizzy Dean is on his bad behavior.” The Glass Menagerie Arizona Theatre Company Play Guide 18
HISTORY TERMS The Bombing of Guernica, 1937 In establishing the social setting of the play in his opening monologue, Tom says “In Spain there was revolution.” Then, in the beginning of scene six, Tom talks about the Paradise Dance Hall across the street from their apartment, saying that young people danced unknowing of the changes about to take place in the world. “In Spain there was Guernica! Here there was only hot swing music and liquor, dance halls, bars, and movies and sex that hung in the gloom like a chandelier and fl ooded the world with brief, deceptive rainbows...While these unsuspecting kids danced to “Dear One, The World is Waiting for the Sunrise.” All the world was really waiting for was bombardments.” This is a foreshadowing to World War II which began two years later in 1939. Tom is speaking of the Spanish Civil War (1936—1939) between the Right-Wing Nationalists led by General Francisco Franco and the Left-Wing Loyalists of the Second Spanish Republic. The Bombing of Guernica, the cultural capital of the Basque people, on April 26, 1937 was the largest aerial attack on a town up to that point. German bombers destroyed a Spanish market fi lled with afternoon shoppers, presumably ordered by Spanish Nationalists to break the spirit of the Basques, part of the group who resisted the Nationalists. The bombing lasted three hours, killing or wounding about 1600 people (one third of the population,) and destroying 70 percent of the town. It was later revealed that Guernica was the testing site for a new Nazi war tactic of bombing civilians to dishearten the enemy. Hogan Gang: The Hogan Gang was an Irish crime gang in St. Louis, led by “Jelly Roll” Hogan, known for multiple public shootouts with rival gang Egan’s Rats throughout the 1920’s. During this time of violence, Hogan was a state representative and later became a state senator. When Amanda accuses Tom of not actually going to the movies every night like he says, Tom sarcastically tells her he has joined the Hogan Gang. -reprinted with permission from Milwaukee Repertory Theatre TERMS OF THE PLAY Beau: A boyfriend of a woman or girl. Amanda is very concerned with Laura fi nding a beau. Amanda claims she had many beaus when she was young. The Glass Menagerie Beleaguered: Harassed or surrounded. Jim tells Laura he was beleaguered by females in high school. Arizona Theatre Company Play Guide 19
Page 1 and 2: Play Guide The Glass Menagerie Ariz
Page 3 and 4: WHO WE ARE Arizona Theatre Company
Page 5 and 6: SYNOPSIS Laura A socially awkward a
Page 7 and 8: WILLIAMS were still people in New O
Page 9 and 10: MEMORY MEMORY PLAYS The Glass Menag
Page 11 and 12: TIME DEPRESSION We’ll cut out bod
Page 13 and 14: WOMEN A 1936 poll in Fortune magazi
Page 15 and 16: DEFENSE IN DEFENSE OF THE MATRIARCH
Page 17: HISTORY Costume Design for the Gent
Page 21 and 22: TERMS Milk Fund: “Milk funds” w
Page 23 and 24: MOVIES DEPRESSION SHOPPING LIST—1
Page 25 and 26: SYMBOLISM Tom describes the gentlem
Page 27 and 28: DISCUSSION 5. What is the signifi c
Page 29 and 30: 3. Discuss the symbol of the glass
Page 31 and 32: - Speaking characters are shown by
Page 33 and 34: 2) Have each student return to his
Page 35 and 36: Debriefi ng Questions 1. Do you fee
Page 37 and 38: The Glass Menagerie 6) Depending on
Page 39: Sample Monologue 2 (The girl in thi

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