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Informationen zum Autor Philip C. Kolin is the Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus and Editor Emeritus of the Southern Quarterly at the University of Southern Mississippi. He has published over forty books on Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, and African American playwrights including fifteen collections of poems. Among these are Reading God's Handwriting (Kaufmann Publishing, 2012); Departures: Poems (Negative Capability Press, 2014); Reaching Forever: Poems (Poiema Series, Cascade Books, 2019); Delta Tears: Poems (Main Street Rag, 2020); and Americorona: Poems about the Pandemic (Wipf and Stock, 2021). He has also published two books of poems about Civil Rights: Emmett Till in Different States: Poems (Third World Press, 2015) and White Terror, Black Trauma: Resistance Poems about Black History (Third World Press, 2023). And he has co-edited three anthologies of eco-poems on Katrina, the Mississippi River, and about the moon. His poems have appeared in Agape, African American Review, America Magazine, Catholic Poetry Room, Christianity and Literature, Christian Century, Ekstasis, ISLE, Amethyst, Michigan Quarterly Review, Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, St. Austin Review, St. Katherine Review, Spiritus, Sojourners, U.S. Catholic, The Windhover, etc. Klappentext This first continuous history of the play surveys major productions and transformations into ballet, film, television, and opera. Zusammenfassung A Streetcar Named Desire revolutionised the modern stage and this book offers the first continuous history of the play in production from 1947 to 1998. Chapters survey major premieres by leading directors. Transformations into other media! such as ballet! film! television! and opera also form an important part of the study. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; General preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. A Streetcar Named Desire - The Broadway premiere and beyond; 2. Streetcar on the world stage: the national premieres, 1948-1953; 3. Streetcar revivals on the English-language stage; 4. Recasting the players: expanding and radicalizing the Streetcar script; 5. Streetcar in other media; Selective production chronology; Notes; Selective bibliography of criticism of Streetcar; Index....
