The exterior of a two-story corner building on a street in New Orleans which is named Elysian Fields and runs between the L & N tracks and the river.
An edition of A Streetcar Named Desire
(1947)
A streetcar named Desire
A play in 3 acts
by Tennessee Williams
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The play reveals to the very depths the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject so far as possible the realities of life with which she is faced and which she consistently ignores. The pressure brought to bear upon her by her sister, with whom she goes to live in New Orleans, intensified by the earthy and extremely "normal" young husband of the latter, leads to a revelation of her tragic self-delusion and, in the end, to madness.
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Streetcar Named Desire
2009, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE OF NEW JERSEY
in English
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A Streetcar Named Desire
1995, Heinemann Educational Publishers
Hardcover
in English
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A streetcar named Desire: A play in 3 acts
1981, Dramatists Play Service Inc.
in English
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A Streetcar Named Desire
1980, New Directions
Paperback
in English
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A Streetcar Named Desire
1975, Signet
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- Special 25th Anniversary Edition; 1st Signet printing (71)
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A Streetcar Named Desire
1947, New American Library
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A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most remarkable plays of our time. It created an immortal woman in the character of Blanche DuBois, the haggard and fragile southern beauty whose pathetic last grasp at happiness is cruelly destroyed. It shot Marlon Brando to fame in the role of Stanley Kowalski, a sweat-shirted barbarian, the crudely sensual brother-in-law who precipitated Blance's tragedy.
Produced across the world and translated into many languages, A Streetcar Named Desire has won one of the widest audiences in contemporary literature.
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