The DuBois family background The DuBois family of Belle Reve was one of the old-established 'plantation' families whose members made their fortunes from using slave labour to farm crops like cotton. Many such families foundered after ...
The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play. A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski.
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams' classic drama studies the emotional disintegration of a Southern woman whose last chance for happiness is destroyed by her vindictive brother-in-law.
The story of Blanche DuBois and her last grasp at happiness, and of Stanley Kowalski, the one who destroyed her chance. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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Discusses the writing of A streetcar named Desire by Tennessee Williams. Includes critical essays on the work and a brief biography of the author.
A comprehensively revised student edition of this classic play which depicts a turbulent confrontation between traditional values in the American South and the rough-edged, aggressive materialism of the new world.
(Opera). This wonderful new American opera, based on the unforgettable Tennessee Williams play, has been broadcast around the world and recorded live on Deutsche Grammaphon, and it's been a big...
Ann Margaret portrays Blanch Dubois who mysteriously left her job and arrives in New Orleans to live with her sister Stella, much against the wishes of Stella's forceful, brutish husband....
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1, Technical University of Braunschweig, course: Proseminar, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the symbolism in A Streetcar Named Desire ...
A Streetcar Named Desire
Propose des études sur la pièce "Un tramway nommé désir" de T. Williams, mise en scène par E. Kazan, et sur le film réalisé quelques années plus tard par ce dernier.
This definitive new edition will also include Williams' essay "The World I Live In," and a brief chronology of the author's life.
Shows the decline of the land-owming Southern artictocracy and sexual frustrations.
Theatre program.