A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams

Power is essential theme not just throughout Tennessee Williams’ oeuvre, but the canon of Western literature as a whole. As such, Williams presents power through his characterization of Stanley throughout ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ in order to...

Throughout ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, Williams presents violence as a multifaceted and complex issue that manifests itself almost constantly in varying guises. However, despite acknowledging that violence is almost certainly the central theme of...

‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ is set in New Orleans in the late 1940’s, just two years after World War Two ended; resulting in the setting and context of the play being rich in history and culture, as New Orleans often is. It was seen as a melting...

The play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams has many formal qualities that make it stand out as one of the most prominent works of its genre in the twentieth century – its rich symbolism being the one that stands out most. Throughout...

Composers creatively explore the intangible nature of the American identity reflecting the flawed values of American exceptionalism and capitalism. Tennessee Williams’ symbolist play, A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947, inspects the destabilisation of...