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A Streetcar Named Desire.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 812.5
EAN: 9780822210894
ISBN: 0822210894
Label: Dramatists Play Service
Manufacturer: Dramatists Play Service
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1998-01
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service
Studio: Dramatists Play Service
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Editorial Review:
The story of Blanche DuBois and her last grasp at happiness, and of Stanley Kowalski, the one who destroyed her chance.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - no good choice
The choice of copies of _The Streetcar Named Desire_
(required reading for high school academic English
this summer) seemed to narrow down to ones with
lurid covers or this plain one. Unfortunately, the text
is almost like a typewritten script--small print and
a little hard to read.
Rating:  - Superb Drama
This classic play by Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) is relentless and compelling. Few readers are un-affected by these pages, even more so than with The Glass Menagerie. The story concerns a Blanche, a troubled former southern belle who moves in with her married sister Stella in New Orleans. Blanch lives off pretensions and delusions, and we quickly sense she's headed for a fall. Her sister Stella doesn't see Blanche clearly, and worries that Blanche's presence will cause trouble with her abusive ... Read More
Rating: - Squalor, Poetry, and Remarkable Insight: An American Classic
Born in Columbus, Mississippi, Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) endured a difficult childhood and adolescence before suddenly exploding to national and then international fame with the 1944 play THE GLASS MENAGERIE. He would go on to create a dozen or so more that were equally famous--but he is perhaps best recalled for the 1947 drama A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, which he drew from a number of personal sources and the time he spent in the New Orleans' French Quarter, in which the play is set.
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Rating: - The Glorious Bird's iconic melodrama
This is probably the most famous piece of literature from the US that I hadn'd read yet, until now. Nor watched as a play or movie. And still I seemed to know everything about it.
Having just read Gore Vidal's memoirs, where he calls TW the 'glorious bird', I was motivated to finally get acquainted with the streetcar. What fun. It is Gone with the Wind updated for the 20th century. It is the downsizing of rural gentry. It shows downward social mobility in a narrative framework of Southern Gothic. ... Read More
Rating:  - A Streetcar Named ... Classic
"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
Blanche's final decree before being taken away to the insane asylum is an ironic remark which Tennessee Williams uses to harshly criticize the promiscuous lifestyle of Miss DuBois in his classic "A Streetcar Named Desire." Moreover, it is a testimony to how Blanche sets herself up for disaster.
Blanche DuBois is the southern belle whom the play revolves around, and she is certainly a character to be remembered for the ages. ... Read More
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