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Article: Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire.(Review)
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- Theatre History Studies
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire. By Philip C. Kolin. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2000. pp. xix + 229. $54.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.
Author Philip C. Kolin in his new treatise, Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire, asserts that Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is "one of the three or four most influential dramas in the twentieth century" (174). However arguable this statement, Kolin's study is most convincing regarding Streetcar's "sustaining power and protean magic" (174), for he sophisticatedly analyzes a wealth of Streetcar productions, revisions, revivals and "radicalizations" since its 1947 debut. Kolin's inclusive historiographic ...