Streetcar Named Desire: Bookcovers Revised

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Streetcar

Williams

found

images and rhythms that are still part of the way we think and feel and move...In this play as in no other, williams was able to do his particular

thing,

to

take

the

Stanley [with heaven-splitting violence]:

fragments of his divided self and turn them into the dratis personae of an ideal conflict.”

– Jack Kroll, Newsweek (1973)

STELLL LAAAHH HHHHH!

[The low-tone clarinet moans. The door upstairs opens again. Stella slips down the rickety stairs in her robe. Her eyes are glistening with tears and her hair loose about her

STELLL LLLLLLLLL

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“In

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ELLL AAHH HHHHHHHHH HHH!STELLAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! throat and shoulders. They stare at each other. Then they come together with low, animal moans. He falls to his knees on the steps and presses his face to her belly,

curving a little with maternity. Her eyes go blind with tenderness as she catches his head and raises him level with her. He snatches the screen door open and lifts her off her fat and bears her into the dark flat.]

STELLL LAAAHH HHHHH!

STELLL LAAAHH HHHHH!

streetcar named desire | tennessee williams

Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, while her reality crumbles around her, just like a paper lantern.


Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs.

IN STREETCAR, Williams found images and rhythms that are still

ST R EETC A R N AMED D E S IR E

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

TIGER— TIGER! WE’VE HAD THIS DATE WITH EACH OTHER FROM THE BEGINNING!

Streetcar Named Desire:

part of the way we think and feel and move...In A beautiful story about

this play as in no other, williams was able to do

love, passion,

his particular thing, to take the fragments of his divided self and turn them into the dratis personae of an ideal conflict.”

DESIRE STREETCAR NAMED

T. WILLIAMS

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

and tragedy.


Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs.

while her reality crumbles around her, just like a paper lantern.

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“In Streetcar Williams found images and rhythms that are still part of the way we think and feel and move...In this play as in no other, williams was able to do his particular thing, to take the fragments of his divided self and turn them into the dratis personae of an ideal conflict.” – Jack Kroll, Newsweek


any more than I can

a rude remark

with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish broth-

or vulgar action.”

er-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, while her reality crumbles around her,

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just like a paper lantern. tennessee williams streetcar named desire

Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in and "The Night of the Iguana" (1961).

include "Summer and Smoke" (1948), "The Rose Tattoo" (1951), "Camino Real" (1953), "Sweet Bird of Youth" (1959),

two Pulitzer Prizes, for "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1947) and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1955). His other major plays

theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs. Tennesse Williams won

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American

“I can’t stand a


“I can’t stand a naked bulb,

Tennessee Williams Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs.

any more than I can a rude remark

or a vulgar action.”

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streetcar

named

Streetcar Named Desire

tennessee williams

Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, while her reality crumbles around her, just like a paper lantern.


Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, while her reality crumbles around her,

just like a paper lantern.

Tennessee Williams Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs.

STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

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DESIRE


Tennessee Williams Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

“In Streetcar, Williams found images and rhythms that are still part of the way we think and feel and move...In this pay as in no other, Williams was able to do his particular thing, to take fragments of his divided self and turn them into the dramtis peronae of an ideal conflict.� - Jack Kroll, Newsweek

Streetcar Named Desire Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, while her reality crumbles around her, just like a paper lantern.


tennessee williams

American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs.

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the

Tennessee Williams

Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, while her reality crumbles around her, just like a paper lantern.

Streetcar Named Desire

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streetcar named desire


Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs.

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Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, while her reality crumbles around her, just like a paper lantern.


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