EAN: 9781350108516

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE - TENNESSEE WILLIAMS T...

This revised Student Edition includes an introduction by Bess Rowen  Assistant Professor at
Villanova University  US  which looks in particular at the play's treatment of rape  vulnerable
people  mental institutions (especially in connection to Williams's own family)  sexuality and
sexual desire. A Streetcar Named Desire shows a turbulent confrontation between traditional
values in the American South - an old-world graciousness and beauty running decoratively to
seed - set against the rough-edged  aggressive materialism of the new world. Through the
vividly characterised figures of Southern belle Blanche Dubois  seeking refuge from physical
ugliness in decayed gentility  and her brutal brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski  Tennessee
Williams dramatises his sense of the South's past as still active and often destructive in
modern America. METHUEN DRAMA STUDENT EDITIONS are expertly annotated texts of a wide range of
plays from the modern and classic repertoires. A well as the complete text of the play itself 
this volume contains: · A chronology of the play and the playwright's life and work · An
introductory discussion of the social  political  cultural and economic context in which the
play was originally conceived and created · A succinct overview of the creation processes
followed and subsequent performance history of the piece · An analysis of  and commentary on 
some of the major themes and specific issues addressed by the text · A bibliography of
suggested primary and secondary materials for further study

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