Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley.

'Big Daddy' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion: Gooper, his wife and children, Brick, an ageing football hero who has turned to drink, and his feisty wife Maggie. This is a portrayal of family tensions.

Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura, her daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories.

'A Streetcar Named Desire is a play of mythological centrality, redefining American Theatre with its indelible heightened poetic naturalism, breaking down the taboo that sexual obsession and sexual violence could not be shown on stage ' Trevor Nunn

The Heinemann Plays series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. This play depicts the conflict between a fading Southern belle and the brash lower-class society of her sister's family.

Includes three plays - Suddenly Last Summer , The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore , and Small Craft Warnings .

Includes three plays - Sweet Bird of Youth , Period of Adjustment , and Period of Adjustment . In Sweet Bird of Youth , Chance Wayne returns to his home town with an ageing movie actress in search of the girl he loved in his youth, but with terrible, violent results.

Includes such dramas as The Rose Tattoo , Camino Real , and Orpheus Descending .

This series of plays has been developed to support classroom teaching and to meet the requirements of the National Curriculum. Tennesse Williams's story has two male and two female parts. There are classroom activities included.

Contains stories such as Baby Doll and Something Unspoken .

Presents a lyrical, and self-reflective record of the life of Tennessee Williams from 1936 to 1981. In this work he wrote out his private thoughts and sketches of plays, poems, and accounts of his social, professional, and sexual encounters. This work is a repository of his fears, obsessions, passions, and contradictions.

A collection of thirteen one-act dramas, which features isolated figures struggling against a cruel world, who refuse to lose sight of their dreams.

One of Tennessee Williams' most popular plays in a special annotated edition for school and college students. It provides the author's favoured text along with a selection of notes, commentary and questions for study.

Volume 1 1920 - 1945. Tennessee Williams's innovative approach and natural lyricism transformed the American stage after World War II. Tennessee Williams wrote to family, friends, and fellow artists with equal measures of piety, wit, and astute self-knowledge. Presented with a running commentary to separate Williams's sometimes hilarious, but often devious, counter-reality from truth, the letters

Features explanations of themes, motifs, and symbols, analyses of characters and quotes, plot summaries and analysis, an exploration of historical context, and facts and potential essay topics.

With detailed analysis of the text, discussions on themes, historical backgrounds and author biographies, York Notes offers students the best insight into the world of English Literature.

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