文档介绍：Several elements in
A Streetcar Named Desire
《欲望号街车》戏剧赏析
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Tennessee williams
(March 26, 1911-February 25, 198B)
Tennessee Williams(1911-1983\,
One of the most prominent
laywrights in United states
after World war‖
Regarded as controversial and
poetic, his plays write about the
oneliness and isolation of
modern man, revealing themes
such as violence frustrations
sex, even homosexuality
Many of Williams's plays reflect
the romantic Southern
Tradition as is exemplified in
the works william faulkner
and sexual freedom as in the
novels of . lawrence. his
characters are victims of having
outlived the southern past in
which they had been at home
Major plays
The Glass Menagerie(1945), Williamss first
major success, won the New York Drama Critics
Circle award
A Streetcar Named Desire (1947, his second
major play, won a Pulitze)prize, and established
him as an major American dramatist
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof(1955), also a Pulitzer
Prize
Themes
Many of his plays are autobiographical, including
references to elements of his life such as
homosexuality mental insta bility and alcoholism
He wrote about sensitive poetic misfits who
escape from reality into a world of illusion/art
Williams propounded the feminizing of american
culture as a counter to a society built on
masculine ideals of strength and power.
Style and Features
O Like Eugene o'Neill, Tennessee Williams wanted
to challenge some of the conventions of
naturalistic theatre
o Williams is known as a poetic"realist. His plays
explore ways of using the stage to depict the
nterior life and memories of a character
A Streetcar
amed Desire's
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How come the play is named
A Streetcar Named Desire
In scene one. branche's
first line is: " They told me
LASTREETCAR
o take a streetcar named
Desire and transfer to
NAMED DESIRE
ride six blocks and get off F AN RLA KAZAN
one called