田納西·威廉斯（Tennessee Williams，1911-1983）是美國20世紀最偉大的三大戲劇傢之一（另外兩位是尤金·奧尼爾和阿瑟·米勒），同時也是全世界範圍內最重要的劇作傢之一。1948年和1955年分彆以其《欲望號街車》及《熱鐵皮屋頂上的貓》兩度贏得普利策奬和戲劇評論奬；《玻璃動物園》和《鬣蜥之夜》也分彆於1945年和1961年拿下紐約戲劇評論奬；1952年的玫瑰黥紋》獲得托尼奬最佳戲劇奬殊榮。

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller ( Death of a Salesman and The Crucible ), and Williams' essay "The World I Live In." It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared—57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire is one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Streetcar launched the careers of Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden, and solidified the position of Tennessee Williams as one of the most important young playwrights of his generation, as well as that of Elia Kazan as the greatest American stage director of the '40s and '50s. Who better than America's elder statesman of the theater, Williams' contemporary Arthur Miller, to write as a witness to the lightning that struck American culture in the form of A Streetcar Named Desire ? Miller's rich perspective on Williams' singular style of poetic dialogue, sensitive characters, and dramatic violence makes this a unique and valuable new edition of A Streetcar Named Desire . This definitive new edition will also include Williams' essay "The World I Live In," and a brief chronology of the author's life.