A Streetcar Named Desire
$18.98
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
20 April 2023
Summary
This revised Student Edition includes an introduction by Bess Rowen, Assistant Professor at Villanova University, which looks in particular at the play’s treatment of rape, vulnerable people, mental institutions (especially in connection to Williams’s own family), sexuality and sexual desire.
A Streetcar Named Desire shows a turbulent confrontation between traditional values in the American South - an old-world graciousness and beauty running decoratively to seed - set agains…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350108516 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350108510 |
| Author: | Tennessee Williams, Bess Rowen |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Methuen Drama |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 20 April 2023 |
| Weight: | 145g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 128mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Student Editions |
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Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier Williams; 1911-83) was a US playwright, whose controversial plays dealt with themes of repressed sexuality and family conflict. Williams was the most popular playwright in America between 1945 and 1960, winning the Pulitzer Prize twice and the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award four times.
Bess Rowen, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Villanova University, USA, as well as a theatre theorist, historian and practitioner. Her research focuses on stage directions, embodiment, intersectional feminist theory, LGBTQ and gender theory, and twentieth-century American playwrights. She is also a trained actor, director and intimacy choreographer.
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