A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)

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."

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. more

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-04-2009; A Streetcar and a Broken Tower; In the published edition of his masterwork, "A Streetcar Named Desire", Tennessee Williams uses as an epigraph the following stanza from "The Broken Tower", probably the final poem written by the American romantic poet Hart Crane...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-01-2009; Houseguest from Hell; Blanche Dubois is the houseguest from hell. She arrives at her sister Stella's cramped New Orleans apartment and showers contempt on the humble surroundings. She ties up the bathroom for hours, drinks all the liquor in the house and...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-03-2009; "A winnig play" Hm...spell check, please?; Obviously, A Streetcar Named Desire is a world-famous play that, along with The Glass Menagerie, made Tennessee Williams a household name (at least in the literary ones). And it thankfully took Marlon Brando to heights that the cinema...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Nov-20-2008; Start of a new era; This was a very passiont film from the south drenched with liquior, romance, and confrontation. By far the best actress in the movie was blanch. She showed every possible emotion a human can have while acting in this play. She sold...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-04-2009; A Streetcar and a Broken Tower; In the published edition of his masterwork, "A Streetcar Named Desire", Tennessee Williams uses as an epigraph the following stanza from "The Broken Tower", probably the final poem written by the American romantic poet Hart Crane...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Feb-07-2007; Classic play, be careful when ordering.; Although I don't love this play everybody seems to know it so it's probablly a good idea to have read it at one point or another. HOWEVER, there are many many different versions of this play, and the version I ordered was not the most...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-09-2008; no good choice; The choice of copies of _The Streetcar Named Desire_ (required reading for high school academic Englishthis summer) seemed to narrow down to ones with lurid covers or this plain one. Unfortunately, the text is almost like a typewritten...; read full review | report as inappropriate