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A streetcar named desire  Cover Image Book Book

A streetcar named desire / Tennessee Williams ; with an introduction by Arthur Miller.

Summary:

It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared--57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire is one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Streetcar launched the careers of Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden, and solidified the position of Tennessee Williams as one of the most important young playwrights of his generation, as well as that of Elia Kazan as the greatest American stage director of the '40s and '50s.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? Miller's rich perspective on Williams' singular style of poetic dialogue, sensitive characters, and dramatic violence makes this a unique and valuable new edition of A Streetcar Named Desire.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780811216029 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: xv, 192 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: New York : New Directions, [2004]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes interview with the author by the author.
Subject: Married people > Drama.
Women teachers > Drama.
Sisters > Drama.
Widows > Drama.
Rape > Drama.
New Orleans (La.) > Drama.
Genre: Drama.
Domestic drama.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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