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
10th printing
by Tennessee Williams
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With the New York production of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947, Tennesse Williams's reputation was established once and for all as America's leading dramatist since O'Neil.
The winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and The Drama Critics Circle Award. Streetcar is a work of great lyric power and deep, compassionate understanding. Set in New Orleans, it is one of Tennessee Williams's unsurpassed portraits of a beautiful, sensitive woman in misplaced circumstances--Blance DuBois, whose life is undermined by fantasy and the memory of a tragic love--and the resentment and passion she arouses in her brutish brother-in-law, Stanly Kowalski.
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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
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- printing (22)
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A Streetcar Named Desire
1980, New Directions
Paperback
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- 10th printing
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A Streetcar Named Desire
1975, Signet
Mass Market Paperback
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- Special 25th Anniversary Edition; 1st Signet printing (71)
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A Streetcar Named Desire
1947, New American Library
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in English
- Signet Edition, 22nd printing
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A streetcar named Desire: A play in 3 acts
Publish date unknown, Dramatists Play Service Inc.
in English
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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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- New Voices in the American Theatre
- Plays 1937 - 1955
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