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Article: TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME 'A Streetcar Named Desire' by tennessee williams
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- June 24, 2007
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Tennessee Williams's most influential play was originally called
The Moth, then changed to Blanche's Chair in the Moon, then to The
Poker Night, before he lighted on A Streetcar Named Desire. He
explained the title's origin in an essay of 1946: 'I live near the
main street of the Quarter. Down this street, running on the same
tracks, are two streetcars, one named "Desire" and the other named
"Cemeteries". Their ...