Title: A Streetcar Named Desire
First published: 1947
Description: A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most remarkable plays of our time. It created an immortal woman in the character of Blanche DuBois, the haggard and fragile southern beauty whose pathetic last grasp at happiness is cruelly destroyed. It shot Marlon Brando to fame in the role of Stanley Kowalski, a sweat-shirted barbarian, the crudely sensual brother-in-law who precipitated Blance's tragedy.

Produced across the world and translated into many languages, A Streetcar Named Desire has won one of the widest audiences in contemporary literature.

Also contained in:
 - [New Voices in the American Theatre](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15163013W/New_Voices_in_the_American_Theatre)
 - [Plays 1937 - 1955](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15077942W/Plays_1937_-_1955)
Subjects: Drama, Married people, Sisters, Women teachers, Widows, Rape, Plays, Polish Americans, Social classes, Theater, Women, open_syllabus_project, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, American drama (dramatic works by one author), American drama, Drama (dramatic works by one author), Children's plays, Domestic drama, American drama, 20th century, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, CHR 1980, PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-3), fiction
Places: New Orleans, French Quarter, Southern States, Louisiana, Desire, Elysian Fields
People: Blanche DuBois, Harold Mitchell, Stanley Kowalski, Stella Kowalski, Steve Hubbell, Pablo Gonzales, Eunice Hubbell, Young Collector, Doctor, Nurse, Negro Woman, Mexican Woman
Time periods: late 1940s