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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE - TENNESSEE WILLIAMS K...

It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and
impact as when they first appeared—57 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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