A Streetcar Named Desire

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 Wiliams' 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.

ISBN 0811216020   Pages 224 ISBN13 9780811216029 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation   Weight (grammes) 196 Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation   Published in New York Format Hardback   Height (mm) 206 Publication date 01 Sep 2004   Width (mm) 137 Writer of introduction Miller, Arthur   Spine width (mm) 15 Library of Congress 2004011654   Academic level General DEWEY 812.54   Alternative ISBN 9780061714658 DEWEY edition DC22

		Introduction by Arthur Miller
		A streetcar named desire		1
		"The world I live in" by Tennessee Williams		181

"In Streetcar Williams found images and rhythms that are still part of the way we think and feel and move..."

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