Tennessee Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning playreissued 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 appeared57 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811220767
• Artikelnr.: 59592329

Autorenporträt

Tennessee Williams (19111983) was America's most influential playwright. Readers have devoured his poetry, essays, short stories, and letters, as well as his fantastic late plays, his remarkable corpus of one-acts, and his greatest playsThe Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Night of the Iguana, The Rose Tattoo, Suddenly Last Summer, and Camino Real. Williams is a cornerstone of New Directionswe publish everything he wrote. He is also our single bestselling author.

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology Introduction Cultural Context: The United States in the 1940s
The Glass Menagerie and the Beginning of an Era Williams and the Writing
Process Realism, Naturalism, and Expressionism Method Acting and Elia Kazan
Depicting Rape and Vulnerability Sex and Sexuality Production History and
Adaptations Further Reading A Streetcar Named Desire Notes