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Study guide for A Streetcar Named Desire, including information on the playwright, characters, plot summary, and suggested activities to extend your understanding of the text as a theatre production.
A quality online study guide for A Streetcar Named Desire, including a structural analysis of themes and characters, as well as providing a contextual overview.
New Orleans Context Material
A brief history of the Desire streetcar line in New Orleans, from which the play takes its name.
Photographs of the French Quarter in New Orleans from the 1940s.
Photographs and historical details of New Orleans in the 1940s.
American Theatre Wing seminar: interpreting Tennessee Williams
