After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and her Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed by and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money. He sets about discovering everything else he can about her past, and tension between Blanche and Stanley is further intensified when Blanche begins dating one of Stanley's poker buddies.
year: 1974, 2004, 2006, 1980, 1947, 1984, 1976, 1982, 1988, 1951
call number/section: 812, 812.54, 812.5, 813.54
subjects: family, new orleans, drama, man-woman relationships, family life, man-woman relationship, new orleans (la.), drama, married people, women teachers, sisters, widows, rape, american drama, domestic drama
Editions
Williams, Tennessee
Signet (1974)
Blanche DuBois, a haggard and fragile southern beauty finds her pathetic last grasp at happiness cruelly destroyed in large part by her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski.
Schools: 10
Williams, Tennessee
New Directions (2004)
Schools: 5
Williams, Tennessee
Warner Home Video (2006)
After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and her Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed by and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money. He sets about discovering everything else he can about her past, and tension between Blanche and Stanley is further intensified when Blanche begins dating one of Stanley's poker buddies.
Schools: 1
Williams, Tennessee
New Directions (1980)
Set in the Creole quarter of New Orleans, the powerful award-winning drama focuses on the life and fantasies of a neurotic, alcoholic, guilt-ridden woman and the resentment and passion that she instills in her brother-in-law.
Schools: 1
Williams, Tennessee
New American Library (1947)
The Pulitzer prize-winning play of a woman betrayed by love. Illustrated with scenes from the New York, London, and Paris productions.
Schools: 2
Williams, Tennessee
New American Library (1984)
Schools: 0
Williams, Tennessee
Signet Book (1976)
Schools: 0
Williams, Tennessee
Limited Editions Club (1982)
Schools: 0
Williams, Tennessee
Limited Editions Club (1982)
Schools: 0
Williams, Tennessee
Limited Editions Club (1982)
Schools: 0
Williams, Tennessee
Limited Editions Club (1982)
Schools: 0
Bloom, Harold (ed.)
Chelsea House (1988)
Schools: 0
Warner (1951)
Schools: 0
Williams, Tennessee
Blanche DuBois, a haggard and fragile southern beauty finds her pathetic last grasp at happiness cruelly destroyed in large part by her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski.
Schools: 5
Williams, Tennessee
Limited Editions Club (1982)
Schools: 0
Williams, Tennessee
Limited Editions Club (1982)
Schools: 1
Bloom, Harold (ed.)
Chelsea House (1988)
Schools: 1
Williams, Tennessee
Schools: 1