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A Streetcar

named Desire

Tennessee

Williams

Tennesee Williams

Thomas Lanier Williams III

• March 26, 1911

Columbus, Mississippi

• February 25, 1983 (71)

New York, NY

Tennesee Williams

Father – shoe salesman, emotionally absent

Mother – clergyman’s daughter, quiet and delicate

They moved from place to place

16 times in 10 years.

Tennesee Williams

1918 – family moves to Saint Louis, Missouri

His family deteriorates(father takes up drinking and becomes abusivetowards his children)

Tennesee Williams

1929 – Tennessee’s essay wins a national

award, published in

Smart Set

magazine

He studies journalism at the University of Missouri, later he drops

1938 – he enters University of Iowa, takes

different part-time jobs in different cities

Tennesee Williams

1940 – first play staged in Boston

Battle of Angels

The Glass Menagerie

in Chicago

performed 500 times in NYC

A Streetcar named Desire

Pulitzer prize

Tennesee Williams

Other major plays: •

The Rose Tattoo

Camino Real

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Garden District

The Night of the Iguana

Tennesee Williams

He fell in love with Frank Merlo

1961 - Merlo’s death puts him in depression he takes up drugs and alcohol

He came back to producing plays after 10 years

A Streetcar named Desire

A Streetcar named Desire

Tragedy, first staged in 1947

Set in the area of New Orleans, Louisiana where streetcars have names instead ofnumbers

A Streetcar named Desire

Stella Kowalski (DuBois)

Stanley Kowalski

A Streetcar named Desire

Blanche DuBoisEnglish teacher fromMississippiShe lost Belle Reve

A Streetcar named Desire

Later on, Blanche offends Stanley once again

and gets raped by him

Finally, she leaves with the doctor without any

goodbye

A Streetcar named Desire

MUSIC

‘Blue piano’ music – dynamismVarsouviana (polka) – death“It’s only a Paper Moon” – Blanche’s lifestyle