A Streetcar Named Desire
About this book
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.
Also contained in:
- New Voices in the American Theatre
- Plays 1937 - 1955
Subjects
- american drama
- american drama, 20th century
- american drama (dramatic works by one author)
- children's plays
- chr 1980
- domestic drama
- drama
- drama (dramatic works by one author)
- fiction
- manners and customs
- married people
- open_syllabus_project
- plays
- polish americans
- pro gotham book mart (former owner) (gotham book mart collection copies 1-3)
- rape
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8
- reading level-grade 9
- sisters
- social classes
- social life and customs
- theater
- widows
- women
- women teachers