A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (English) Paperback Book

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The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play-reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams' essay "The World I Live In."

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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.This definitive new edition will also include Williams' essay "The World I Live In," and a brief chronology of the author's life.

Author Biography

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) is the acclaimed author of many books of letters, short stories, poems, essays, and a large collection of plays, including The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, The Night of the Iguana, and The Rose Tattoo.

Review

"In Streetcar Williams found images and rhythms that are still part of the way we think and feel and move." -- Jack Kroll - Newsweek "Lyrical and poetic and human and heartbreaking and memorable and funny." -- Francis Ford Coppola "The introductions, by playwrights as illustrious as Williams himself, are the gem of these new editions." -- Ken Furtado - Echo Magazine "Blanche is the Everest of modern American drama, a peak of psychological complexity and emotional range." -- John Lahr - The New Yorker

Review Text

'eoeLyrical and poetic and human and heartbreaking and memorable and funny.'e

Review Quote

"The introductions, by playwrights as illustrious as Williams himself, are the gem of these new editions."

Details ISBN0811216020 Pages 224 Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation Language English ISBN-10 0811216020 ISBN-13 9780811216029 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2004 Residence Columbus, MS, US Birth 1911 Death 1983 Edition 1st Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Short Title STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE REV/E Edition Description Revised DOI 10.1604/9780811216029 Edited by Browne, E. UK Release Date 2004-09-01 AU Release Date 2004-09-01 NZ Release Date 2004-09-01 Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation DEWEY 812.54 Audience General Publication Date 2004-09-01 US Release Date 2004-09-01 Author Arthur Miller We've got this

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