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A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
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Description for A Streetcar Named Desire
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 196.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811216029
SKU
V9780811216029
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99-50
About Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) was America’s most influential playwright. Readers have devoured his poetry, essays, short stories, and letters, as well as his fantastic late plays, his remarkable corpus of one-acts, and his greatest plays—The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Night of the Iguana, The Rose Tattoo, Suddenly Last Summer, and Camino Real. ... Read more
Reviews for A Streetcar Named Desire
"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 - ... Read more
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 - ... Read more