A Streetcar Named Desire

By Tennessee Williams

Subjects: Women, Drama (dramatic works by one author), Reading Level-Grade 12, Polish Americans, Domestic drama, Reading Level-Grade 9, Plays, Manners and customs, Theater, Women teachers, Children's plays, Reading Level-Grade 8, PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-3), Social classes, Reading Level-Grade 7, open_syllabus_project, CHR 1980, Drama, Social life and customs, Reading Level-Grade 11, Widows, American drama (dramatic works by one author), Married people, American drama, Sisters, American drama, 20th century, Reading Level-Grade 10, Rape

Description: 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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15163013W/New_Voices_in_the_American_Theatre) - [Plays 1937 - 1955](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15077942W/Plays_1937_-_1955)