{"product_id":"a-streetcar-named-desire","title":"A Streetcar Named Desire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play―reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDeath of a Salesman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Crucible\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e), and Williams' essay \"The World I Live In.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt 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' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Streetcar Named Desire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eStreetcar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e launched the careers of Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden, and solidified the position of Tennessee Williams as one of the most important young playwrights of his generation, as well as that of Elia Kazan as the greatest American stage director of the '40s and '50s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Streetcar Named Desire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e? 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Streetcar Named Desire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. This definitive new edition will also include Williams' essay \"The World I Live In,\" and a brief chronology of the author's life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beck's Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43931056144450,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/8101\/7666\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_ba64be43-a92e-4cad-b10c-121ba0c596a9.jpg?v=1783199604","url":"https:\/\/becksbooksmpls.com\/products\/a-streetcar-named-desire","provider":"Beck's Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}