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A Streetcar Named Desire by Nicola Onyett (Editor); Tennessee Williams
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Study and Revise for AS/a Level Ser.
Exam Board: AQA A, AQA B, Edexcel, WJEC, WJEC Eduqas Level: AS/A-level Subject: English literature First teaching: September 2015 First exams: Summer 2016 Enable students to achieve their best grade in AS/A-level English Literature with this year-round course companion; designed to instil in-depth textu ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Category: Fiction | Series: Student Editions
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 against the rough-edged, aggressive materialism of the new world. Through the vividly characterised figures of Southern bell ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared-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 D ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire (Methuen Student Editions) by Tennessee Williams; Bess Rowen (Volume Editor)
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Student Editions Ser.
A revised student edition of Tennessee Williams's classic play, A Streetcar Named Desire. This revised Student Edition includes an introduction by Bess Rowen, Visiting Assistant Professor at Villanova University, US, which looks in particular at the play's treatment of rape, vulnerable people, mental in ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Series
Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eve ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays: Sweet Bird of Youth; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams: E. Martin Browne (Editor)
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Tennessee Williams's sensuous, atmospheric plays transformed the American stage with their passion, exoticism and vibrant characters who rage against their personal demons and the modern world. This collection includes a number of William's plays, including "A Streetcar Named Desire".
A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays - Sweet Bird of Youth; The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Category: Classic | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
For use in schools and libraries only. 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.
Baby Doll and Other Plays by WILLIAMS Tennessee
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Tennessee Williams' controversial Hollywood screenplay "Baby Doll" opens with Archie Lee's teenage bride driving him to distraction, as she has refused to consummate their marriage until the day of her twentieth birthday. Enter wily Sicilian Silva Vaccaro, Archie's rival both in the cotton business and ...Show more
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sexuality repressed in the agony of her h ...Show more
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams; Benjamin Hudson (Volume Editor)
Category: Fiction | Series: Student Editions Ser.
'Big Daddy' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion- Gooper, his wife and children, Brick, an ageing football hero who has turned to drink, and his feisty wife Maggie. As the hot summer ...Show more
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A Southern family meet to celebrate 'Big Daddy' Pollit's birthday- Gooper with his wife and children, his brother Brick - an ageing, broken football star - and his wife Maggie. But as the party unfolds the facade of a happy family gathering is fractured by sexual frustration, repressed love, and greed i ...Show more