A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)

Tennessee Williams

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811216020 ISBN 13: 9780811216029

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2004

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.

Review:

Lyrical and poetic and human and heartbreaking and memorable and funny.--Francis Ford Coppola

The introductions, by playwrights as illustrious as Williams himself, are the gem of these new editions.--Ken Furtado

Blanche is the Everest of modern American drama, a peak of psychological complexity and emotional range.--John Lahr

About the Author:

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) is the acclaimed author of many books of letters, short stories, poems, essays, and a large collection of plays, including The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, The Night of the Iguana, and The Rose Tattoo.