A Streetcar Named Desire AO5 Flashcards
Sunday Express - Blanche’s sexuality
“the progress of a prostitute, the flight of a nymphomaniac, the ravings of a sexual neurotic”
Parliament
‘low and repugnant’
Public morality council
‘salacious and pornographic’
The Guardian
‘At best, Williams pinned down America at its worst.’
The Guardian
‘he saw the human condition - especially his own - as faintly absurd.’
The Guardian
‘he is a poet of lost souls’
Clurman
“martyred poetic instinct and aristocracy of feeling”.
Wilbur
‘The play is largely hers.’
American playwright John Osborne 1960s
Among the fervent Stanleyites ‘the female must come toppling down to where she should be - on her back.’
Clurman - Stanley
‘Stanley’s mentality provides the soil for fascism.’ ‘Lumpish fascism’
Howard Clurman
‘Blanche is a delicate and sensitive woman pushed into insanity by a brutish environment presided over by chief ape-man Stanley Kowalski.’
