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Author: Tennessee Williams | Language: English | ISBN: B00B10GAU2 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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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 Desire
is 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.



Who
better than America's elder statesman of the theater, Williams'
contemporary Arthur Miller, to write as a witness to the lightning that
struck American culture in the form of A Streetcar Named Desire?
Miller's rich perspective on Williams' singular style of poetic
dialogue, sensitive characters, and dramatic violence makes this a
unique and valuable new edition of A Streetcar Named Desire.
This definitive new edition will also include Williams' essay "The
World I Live In," and a brief chronology of the author's life. Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook) [Kindle Edition] Free PDF

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Tennessee Williams probably signed there his best play, at least the one that is best-known. It is entirely centered on a woman who flees from Mississippi to New Orleans to live, for a while, with her married sister. The two sisters were born in the Southern aristocracy that got bankrupt by not being able, or even refusing, to get into the new flow of time. One went away and married a working class immigrant who is in many ways uncultured and rough, even violent at times. But desire is stronger than that violence and love survives a row from time to time, provided truthfulness and some sensual sincerity exist. But that is only the secondary theme to which Blanche, the other sister, is confronted and this brings back her real drama that is burried in her memory. She married very young. Her husband was also very young and a poet. But she discovered that he also was gay and she could not accept it due to her southern aristocratic principles. He was an abomination and she told him so one night and he went out and killed himself. She never overcame her guilt and she delved into a more and more dissolute life with any man that could come along, till she went back to a substitute of her dead husband, a 17 year old boy. The family protested and she was expelled from the school system (she was a teacher) and from the city. Confronted to the life of her sister and husband, she regresses into southern sophistication. She comes across a man, Mitch, who could and even would like to marry her. But her sister's husband, wanting to get rid of her, exposes her lies about her past to his friend Mitch and his wife. He destroys the dream and Blanche sinks into some psychotic nightmare that becomes a complete breakdown when her brother in law, on the very night when his son was born, rapes her.

This is another classic from my high school days that seems wasted on youth. How can a fifteen-year-old in prep school appreciate the desperation and human frailty of Blanche DuBois? Or the dichotomy inherent in Stanley Kowalski's passionate brutality?

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BLANCHE: What you are talking about is brutal desire--just--Desire!--the name of that rattle-trap street-car that bangs through the Quarter, up one old narrow street and down another...
STELLA: Haven't you ever ridden on that street-car?
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Many will have seen either the stage or film versions of Streetcar, but reading through Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play allows for the depression to really set in. Readers may even recognize qualities in friends and family members approximating those of alcoholism or domestic violence.

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BLANCHE: A hot bath and a long, cold drink always give me a brand new outlook on life!
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There are so many great dialogue exchanges here, outside of the classic "kindness of strangers" quote. I'll snip a few of my favorites.

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MITCH: You ought to lay off his liquor. He says you been lapping it up all summer like a wild-cat!
BLANCHE: What a fantastic statement!

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