TY - BOOK AU - Williams,Tennessee TI - A streetcar named desire SN - 9780811216029 AV - PS3545.I5365 S8 2004 U1 - 812/.54 22 PY - 2004/// CY - New York : PB - New Directions, KW - Married people KW - Drama KW - Women teachers KW - Sisters KW - Widows KW - Rape KW - New Orleans (La.) KW - Domestic drama. KW - lcsh N2 - 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 Desireis 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. Streetcar 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 ER -