| A Streetcar Named Desire Contributor(s): Williams, Tennessee (Author), Miller, Arthur (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1613831803 ISBN-13: 9781613831809 Publisher: Turtleback Books OUR PRICE: $21.93 Product Type: Prebound - Other Formats Published: September 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - General - Literary Criticism | Drama |
| Dewey: 812 |
| Series: New Directions Books |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 8" (0.57 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - Deep South - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana - Locality - New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 12798 Reading Level: 5.7 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 4.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continueto have the same power and impact as when they first appeared 57 yearsafter its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desireis one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded andpromiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy andbrutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Streetcar launched thecareers of Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden, and solidified the position of Tennessee Williams as one of the mostimportant young playwrights of his generation, as well as that of EliaKazan as the greatest American stage director of the '40s and '50s.Whobetter than America's elder statesman of the theater, Williams'contemporary Arthur Miller, to write as a witness to the lightning thatstruck American culture in the form of A Streetcar Named Desire?Miller's rich perspective on Williams' singular style of poeticdialogue, sensitive characters, and dramatic violence makes this aunique and valuable new edition of A Streetcar Named Desire.This definitive new edition will also include Williams' essay "TheWorld I Live In," and a brief chronology of the author's life. |