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Mar 5, 2009 · Tennessee Williams's steamy and shocking landmark drama, recreated as the immortal film starring Marlo Brando and Vivien Leigh, is one of the most influential plays of the twentieth century. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.
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A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by Tennessee Williams and first performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947. The play dramatizes the experiences of Blanche DuBois , a former Southern belle who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her once-prosperous situation to move into a shabby apartment in New Orleans rented by ...
Tennessee Williams created such a bleak, raw, visceral cast of characters in A Streetcar Named Desire in which he probes their innermost desires and truths. His striking and evocative dialogues skillfully depict the complex themes portrayed throughout.
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Sep 1, 2004 · A Streetcar Named Desire is a scathing and cruel indictment of what occurred in American culture after the war. It deals with the harshness of domestic violence, rape, and also emotional abuse. Tennessee Williams had an exceptional talent when it came to playwriting.
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Arthur Miller.
The story of the fading and desperate Blanche DuBois and how her sensuous and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, pushes her over the edge is now classic. Who better than Arthur Miller, America’s elder statesman of the theater ( Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, Broken Glass, Resurrection Blues ), to write as a ...
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Jun 17, 1980 · Tennessee Williams is one of America's finest playwrights, and his 1947 Pulitzer-Prize winning "A Streetcar Named Desire" is his undisputed masterpiece. "The Glass Menagerie" moves us to tears and "Suddenly, Last Summer" is luridly fascinating, but "Streetcar" remains in, and haunts, our souls.
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Sep 17, 2004 · Who better than America's elder statesman of the theater, Williams' contemporary Arthur Miller, to write as a witness to the lightning that struck American culture in the form of A Streetcar Named Desire?
