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A Streetcar Named Desire
is a play written bi
Tennessee Williams
that appent on
Broadway
on 3 December 1947.
[1]
The play dramatises the life o
Blanche DuBois
, a soothren belle wha, efter haein a series o personal losses, leaves her aristocratic backgrund seekin refuge wi her sister an brither-in-law in a rin-doon
New Orleans
tenement.
A Streetcar Named Desire
is Williams' maist weel-kent play, is conseidert amang the finest plays o the 20t yeirhunner, an is conseidert bi many tae be Williams' greatest wark.
[1]
It won the
Pullitzer Prize
for drama in 1948 and Williams wis addit tae the Theater Hall of Fame in 1979.
[2]
It aye ranks amang his maist performed plays, includin in 1949 London performance wi
Vivien Leigh
in the heid role,
[3]
an it haes inspired mony adaptations in ither forms, includin ae critically acclaimed film that wis lowsed in 1951.
[4]