tennessee williams a street car named desire

The series has been specially developed to support classroom teaching and performance. Heinemann Plays is a well established series offering the best of contemporary drama and a wide range of established classics, in value-for-money hardback versions. Miller' s rich perspective on Williams' s singular style of poetic dialogue, sensitive characters, and dramatic violence makes this a unique and valuable new edition of 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. This definitive new edition will also include Williams' essay 'The World I Live In,' and a brief chronology of the author' s life. 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.

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. 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. 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.

Tennessee williams a street car named desire