
A Streetcar Named Desire
Arthur Miller
(Introduction by)Description
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.
Product Details
Publisher | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
Publish Date | September 17, 2004 |
Pages | 224 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780811216029 |
Dimensions | 7.9 X 5.2 X 0.6 inches | 0.4 pounds |
About the Author
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was America's most influential playwright. Readers have devoured his poetry, essays, short stories, and letters, as well as his fantastic late plays, his remarkable corpus of one-acts, and his greatest plays--The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Night of the Iguana, The Rose Tattoo, Suddenly Last Summer, and Camino Real. Williams is a cornerstone of New Directions--we publish everything he wrote. He is also our single bestselling author.
Reviews
In Streetcar Williams found images and rhythms that are still part of the way we think and feel and move.--Jack Kroll "Newsweek"
The introductions, by playwrights as illustrious as Williams himself, are the gem of these new editions.--Ken Furtado "Echo Magazine"
Lyrical and poetic and human and heartbreaking and memorable and funny.--Francis Ford Coppola
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