num_pages: 142
description: The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams’ essay “The World I Live In.”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 Desireis 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.
language: English
title: A Streetcar Named Desire
titlecomplete: A Streetcar Named Desire
characters: Blanche DuBois, Steve Hubbel, Harold "Mitch" Mitchell, Stanley Kowalski, Stella Kowalski, Eunice Hubbel
genres: Read For School, 20th Century, American, Theatre, School, Drama, Plays, Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 302682
places: The United States of America, Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana
awards: awardedAt: -694281600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Drama, awardedAt: -694281600000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best American Play
publisher: Signet Books