"What was named ""Desire"" in the 1947 play by Tennessee Williams?"
A Streetcar Named Desire 30, 1947, four days before the opening of "A Streetcar Named Desire". Another version of this essay, entitled "The Catastrophe of Success", is sometimes used as an introduction to "The Glass Menagerie". On October 1, 2009, Swann Galleries auctioned an unusually fine copy of "A Streetcar Named Desire", New York, 1947, signed by Williams and dated 1976 for $9,000, a record price for a signed copy of the play. A Streetcar Named Desire A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams that received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on
Tennessee Williams was inducted into the Poets' Corner at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York. Performers and artists who took part in his induction included Vanessa Redgrave, playwright John Guare, Eli Wallach, Sylvia Miles, Gregory Mosher, and Ben Griessmeyer. The Tennessee Williams Theatre in Key West, Florida, is named for him. The Tennessee Williams Key West Exhibit on Truman Avenue houses rare Williams memorabilia, photographs, and pictures including his famous typewriter. At the time of his death, Williams had been working on a final play, "In Masks Outrageous and Austere", which attempted to reconcile certain forces and facts