2007-12-05 15:20:21 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
A "menagerie" is a collection of animals, especially wild ones that are in captivity, such as in a zoo or a circus. So 'Glass Menagerie', for me, has always brought to mind something you might find in a maiden aunt's house: a bookcase or mantel filled with small wild animals cut out of glass, revealing a taste or desire for the wild and untamed, but which has become an utterly safe and decorative thing. Carefully maintained, or perhaps even dusty and neglected: a private stock of frozen fantasy.
Sorry to "TD", T.D., but "Twelve Angry Men", "West Side Story", "Romeo and Juliet"...these and countless others can hardly be called symbolic, even though this one is.
2007-12-05 16:10:22 · answer #1 · answered by titou 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have been in the theatre since high school and am now 70 years old and I never heard of a 'litereal' meaning of a play.
Since plays are works of art, they have symbolic meaning.
2007-12-05 15:44:00 · answer #2 · answered by Theatre Doc 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋