description: A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most remarkable plays of our time. Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize winning classic, it is the haunting story of a faded Southern beauty whose illusions about herself are at war with reality. Blanche DuBois, tormented by the memory of her tragic marriage and the scandal she had precipitated in the small town of her birth, glees to New Orleans to find refuge with her sister. But her sensual, crude brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, resents her presence, and in a violent, passionate rage, exposes her past and cuts off her last change of escape from the squalid misery of her life.
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: N A L