The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams' essay "The World I Live In." 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 Desire is 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. Who better than America's elder statesman of the theater, Williams' contemporary Arthur Miller, to write as a witness to the lightning that struck American culture in the form of A Streetcar Named Desire? Miller's rich perspective on Williams' singular style of poetic dialogue, sensitive characters, and dramatic violence makes this a unique and valuable new edition of A Streetcar Named Desire. This definitive new edition will also include Williams' essay "The World I Live In," and a brief chronology of the author's life.

テネシー・ウィリアムズが描くのは、脆い幻想と暴力的な現実の衝突です。没落貴族の末裔ブランチの嘘が、野性的なスタンリーに暴かれる過程は、官能的な詩情を湛えています。言葉に滲む絶望と「欲望」が辿り着く終着駅の虚無感は、読者の魂を激しく揺さぶります。 映画版ではブランドの肉体性が強烈ですが、テキストにはト書きまで緻密な情緒が流れています。映像が視覚的衝撃を与える一方、活字はブランチの精神が崩壊する微細な震えを直接心に響かせます。伝説的映像を脳裏に置きつつ、この深淵に触れることで、不朽の名作は真に完成するのです。