num_pages: 179
description: With the New York production of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947, Tennesse Williams's reputation was established once and for all as America's leading dramatist since O'Neil.The winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and The Drama Critics Circle Award. Streetcar is a work of great lyric power and deep, compassionate understanding. Set in New Orleans, it is one of Tennessee Williams's unsurpassed portraits of a beautiful, sensitive woman in misplaced circumstances--Blance DuBois, whose life is undermined by fantasy and the memory of a tragic love--and the resentment and passion she arouses in her brutish brother-in-law, Stanly Kowalski.(back cover)
language: English
title: A Streetcar Named Desire
titlecomplete: A Streetcar Named Desire
characters: Stella Kowalski, Harold "Mitch" Mitchell, Steve Hubbel, Eunice Hubbel, Blanche DuBois, Stanley Kowalski
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, American, Drama, School, Literature, Read For School, Classics, 20th Century
ratings_count: 302778
places: Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana, The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: -694281600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Drama, awardedAt: -694281600000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best American Play
publisher: New Directions