书名：A Streetcar Named Desire 欲望号街车 
作者：Tennessee Williams 田纳西·威廉斯
出版社名称：Penguin Classics
出版时间：2009
语种：英文
ISBN：9780141190273
商品尺寸：19.3 x 12.7 x 1 cm
包装：平装
页数：112 （以实物为准）

A Streetcar Named Desire《欲望号街车》是美国剧作家田纳西·威廉斯所著的剧本，1947年该剧在纽约上演后获得巨大成功，囊括了美国三项戏剧大奖：普利策奖、纽约戏剧奖和唐纳德森奖。根据其改编而成的电影（费雯•丽及马龙•白兰度主演）更是斩获了多项奥斯卡大奖，风靡全球。本书为英文版剧本书，适合有一定英文基础的戏剧爱好者或英语学习者阅读。
推荐理由：
1.美国戏剧大师田纳西·威廉斯经典剧作，堪称美国剧坛乃至全世界剧坛有名的作品之一，非常值得戏剧工作者或爱好者细读；
2. 英文原版剧本书，原汁原味，内容完整无删节，阅读难度不大；
3. 企鹅经典系列，本版本由阿瑟·米勒作序，书后附录作者的自问自答。
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Arthur Miller.
With an introduction byArthur Miller

A Streetcar Named Desire《欲望号街车》是田纳西·威廉斯的扛鼎之作，女主人公布兰奇是典型的南方淑女，家庭败落以后，不肯放弃旧日的生活方式，逐渐堕落腐化，后来不得不投靠妹妹斯黛拉。但又与妹夫斯坦利粗暴的生活方式格格不入，继而遭妹夫强奸，之后被送进疯人院。现代社会中野蛮残忍的势力无情地蹂躏温柔优雅的弱者，《欲望号街车》无疑是向社会发出了一声振聋发聩的嘶喊——是谁把布兰奇逼疯了！
Fading southern belle Blanche DuBois is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley Kowalski. Eventually their violent collision course causes Blanche's fragile sense of identity to crumble, threatening to destroy her sanity and her one chance of happiness.
Tennessee Williams’s steamy and shocking landmark drama, recreated as the immortal film starring Marlon Brando, is one of the the most influential plays of the twentieth century.

田纳西·威廉斯（Tennessee Williams，1911—1983），是美国20世纪伟大的三大戏剧家之一（另外两位是尤金·奥尼尔和阿瑟·米勒），同时也是全世界范围内重要的剧作家之一。1948年和1955年分别以其《欲望号街车》及《热铁皮屋顶上的猫》两度赢得普利策奖和戏剧评论奖；《玻璃动物园》和《鬣蜥之夜》也分别于1945年和1961年拿下纽约戏剧评论奖；1952年的《玫瑰黥纹》获得托尼奖戏剧奖殊荣。
Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing. He entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great diversity. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published The Glass Menagerie (1944), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Summer and Smoke (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real (1953), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Orpheus Descending (1957), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), Period of Adjustment (1960), The Night of the Iguana (1961), The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963) and Small Craft Warnings (1972). Tennessee Williams died in 1983.

Introduction:Regarding Streetcar导言 阿瑟·米勒
TheCharacters 演职员表
A Streetcar Named Desire欲望号街车
“ The WorldILive In” “我生活的世界”——田纳西·威廉斯自问自答

Scene One
The exterior of a two-storey corner building on a street in New Orleans which is named Elysian Fields and runs between the L & N tracks and the river. The section is poor but unlike corresponding sections in other American cities, it has a raffish charm. The houses are mostly white frame, weathered grey, with rickety outside stairs and galleries and quaintly ornamented gables. This building contains two flats, upstairs and down. Faded white stairs ascend to the entrances of both. It is first dark of an evening early in May. The sky that shows around the dim white building is a peculiarly tender blue, almost turquoise, which invests the scene with a kind of lyricism and gracefully attenuates the atmosphere of decay. You can almost feel the warm breath of the brown river beyond the river warehouses with their faint redolences of bananas and coffee. A corresponding air is evoked by the music of Negro entertainers at a bar-room around the corner. In this part of New Orleans you are practically always just around the corner, or a few doors down the street, from a tinny piano being played with the infatuated fluency of brown fingers. This blue piano' expresses the spirit of the life which goes on here.
[Two women, one white and one coloured, are taking the air on the steps of the building. The white woman Eunice, who occupies the upstairs flat; the coloured woman a neighbour, for New Orleans is a cosmopolitan city where there is a relatively warm and easy intermingling of races in the old part of town.    
Above the music of the 'blue piano' the voices of people on the street can be heard overlapping.]