num_pages: 113
description: What emerges is a brutal picture of a messed-up world where escape, be it through bowling, booze or Blanche DuBois's epic self-delusion.' Herald (11 November 2008) 'Williams's world is one in which - as in real life - misery always comes entwined with a contrasting sense of beauty, glamour, music and yearning.' Scotsman (14 November 2008)
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: Methuen