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—A Streetcar Named Desire is one of those plays. The story of the fading and desperate Blanche DuBois and how her sensuous and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, pushes her over the edge is now classic. Witness the lightning that struck American culture when Williams's singular style of poetic dialogue, violence, compassion, and dramatic sexuality was first encountered in the form of A Streetcar Named Desire.

Also available:  Streetcar Named Desire in the handsome Library of America edition of Williams's plays:  

In celebration of the Tennessee Williams centennial in 2011, The Library of America presents its acclaimed two-volume edition in a collector's boxed set. Gathering thirty-two plays written from the 1930s to the 1980s, this collection contains all the essential dramatic works of the playwright who transformed the American stage.

Plays 1937–1955

• Spring Storm
• Not About Nightingales
• Battle of Angels
• I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix
• The Glass Menagerie
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• Summer and Smoke
• The Rose Tattoo
• Camino Real
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

One-act plays from 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (1946):

• 27 Wagons Full of Cotton
• The Lady of Larkspur Lotion
• The Last of My Solid Gold Watches
• Portrait of a Madonna
• Auto-da-Fé
• Lord Byron's Love Letter
• This Property Is Condemned

One-act plays from 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (1953):

• "Something Wild"
• Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen
• Something Unspoken

Plays 1957–1980

• Orpheus Descending
• Suddenly Last Summer
• Sweet Bird of Youth
• Period of Adjustment
• The Night of the Iguana
• The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
• The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
• The Mutilated
• Kingdom of Earth (The Seven Descents of Myrtle)
• Small Craft Warnings
• Out Cry
• Vieux Carré
• A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur