Blanche The Life and Times of Tennessee Williams's Greatest Creation

Nancy Schoenberger

eBook - 2023

A penetrating consideration of Tennessee Williams's most enduring character—Blanche DuBois from A Streetcar Named Desire—written by the co-author of The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters and Furious Love.Ever since Jessica Tandy glided onto the stage in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 1947, Blanche DuBois has fascinated generations of audiences worldwide and secured a place in the history of literature, theater, and film. One of Williams's greatest creations, Blanche has bedazzled, amused, and broken the hearts of generations of audiences. Before the Covid pandemic, the stage classic was performed somewhere in the world every hour. It has been adapted into a ballet and an opera, and ...it was satirized in an episode of The Simpsons. The final twelve words Blanche utters at the play's end—"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers"—have taken on a life of their own. Endlessly... more