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Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire was first staged in New York City in 1947 and remains one of his most celebrated works. Its main character, Blanche DuBois, is a sensitive and compromised Southern woman who succumbs to madness, overwhelmed by guilt and an inability to adapt to a changing world.

The Night of the Iguana (1960) was one of Williams’s last great successes. This play explores a set of socially marginal characters who find redemption despite their weaknesses and disappointments.

Carson McCullers’s novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter...

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