About the Book: A Streetcar Named 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 Souths past as still active and often destructive in modern
America.
This revised edition features a new production history of the play that
considers both stage and screen presentations, an updated bibliography and
extensive