A Streetcar Named Desire
$22.43
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
19 April 2023
Summary
A Streetcar Named Desire: Student Edition
This revised Student Edition features an introduction by Bess Rowen, Assistant Professor at Villanova University, exploring the play’s engagement with sensitive themes like rape, vulnerable individuals, mental health institutions (drawing parallels to Williams’s personal history), and the complexities of sexuality and desire.
A Streetcar Named Desire vividly portrays the clash between the fading elegance of the American Sout…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350108516 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350108510 |
| Series: | Student Editions |
| Author: | Tennessee Williams, Bess Rowen |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Methuen Drama |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 19 April 2023 |
| Weight: | 135g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 14mm |
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About The Author
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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