The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning playmdash;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 appearedmdash;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 Americas 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? Millers 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 authors life.
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