Year 11
ATAR Literature
This subject guide is to support your Year 12 ATAR ENGLISH study of
A streetcar named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
If you have any problems with these resources or need further help, please contact the Teacher Librarians via lis@mlc.wa.edu.au
Last updated 1st April, 2019
All resources are digital except for those indicated by theicon, which can be found on the shelf at 812.54 in the Library.
A playwright named desire: the life of Tennessee Williams. (2014, November 11). https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/tennessee-williams3amad-pilgrimage-of-the-flesh/5880344
Hermann, S. (2017). Reading and interpreting the works of Tennessee Williams. New York, New York: Enslow Publishing.
Odlaveg Semog. (2016, February 3). Tennessee Williams Wounded Genius [Video file]. https://youtu.be/L_cO_71cZxQ
Roudane, M. C. (1997). The Cambridge companion to Tennessee Williams. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Tennessee Williams. (2019). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Britannica School database.
The Play
A streetcar named Desire. (n.d.). http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/streetcar/
Bloom, H. (2018). Tennessee Williams’s A streetcar named Desire. AccessIt database.
Bradford, W. (2018, December 7). Explore the Setting of “A Streetcar Named Desire”. https://www.thoughtco.com/the-setting-of-a-streetcar-named-desire-2713530
Jazz everyday. (2016, March 9). Ella Fitzgerald – It’s Only a Paper Moon [Video file]. https://youtu.be/2_uwE0WkM7YIt’s
National Theatre. (n.d.). NT Education Workpack: A Streetcar Named Desire. https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/sites/default/files/streetcar-named-desire-workpack.pdf
O’Shea, R. (2009). A streetcar named Desire, Tennessee Williams. Elsternwick, Vic: Insight.
Onyett, N. (2016). A streetcar named desire by Tennessee Williams. London, England: Hodder Education.
Robert, C. & Small, J.R. (2004). A Teacher’s Guide to the Signet Edition of Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire. https://www.penguin.com/static/pdf/teachersguides/streetcar.pdf
Sambrook, H., & Eddy, S. (2015). A streetcar named Desire : Tennessee Williams. Harlow, United Kingdom: Pearson Education Australia.
Wilson, T., & Rayson, H. (2011). A streetcar named desire by Tennessee Williams. http://wheelercentre.com/videos/video/texts-in-the-city-a-streetcar-named-desire/
The Context
Corrigan, J. (2010). The 1940s decade in photos : a world at war. Berkeley Heights, New Jersey : Enslow Publishing.
Feinstein, S. (2016). The 1940s. New York, New York: Enslow Publishing.
MyNativeNewOrleans. (2012, September 18). New Orleans in 1940 – A Brief New Orleans History Lesson [Video file]. https://youtu.be/E-0iKYQBUB8
O’Shea, R. (2009). A streetcar named Desire, Tennessee Williams. Elsternwick, Vic: Insight.
Onyett, N. (2016). A streetcar named desire by Tennessee Williams. London, England: Hodder Education.
Ramirez, E. A. (n.d.). The Desire Line: Streetcar Loss & Rebirth in New Orleans. New Orleans Historical. https://neworleanshistorical.org/items/show/542
Wider Reading & Viewing
Kazan, E. (Director). (1951). A streetcar named Desire [Video file]. ClickView database.
This is the film classic adapted from the play.
Paige, C. (n.d.). Tennessee Williams. A new literary history of America. http://www.newliteraryhistory.com/tennesseewilliams.html
Purdue University. (n.d.). Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism. https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/writing_in_literature/literary_theory_and_schools_of_criticism/index.html
Heims, N. (2010). Critical contexts: A Room That I Thought Was Empty: The Representation of Repression in A Streetcar Named Desire. Critical Insights: A Streetcar Named Desire, 56–71. Literary Reference Center database.
Panda, R. N. (2016). Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire: A Study in Sexual/Textual Politics. IUP Journal of English Studies, 11(2), 50–56. Literary Reference Center database.
Find more articles to read in the Literary Reference Center and Bloom’s Literature databases.
References
A streetcar named Design banner [Image]. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://mnprairieroots.com/2018/02/16/domestic-abuse-takes-center-stage-in-owatonna/a-streetcar-named-desire-graphic/