This video explores literary and political and social context to Williams' work. This focuses on Streetcar Named Desire, but could be applied to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as well.
I cannot thank you enough. I watched about half of this video before my exam and ended up getting an A* on the Streetcar paper. I actually enjoyed writing the paper and talking about the things you had bought up. Thank you so much!!
This video was very helpful. Thank you so much for putting all this effort into research. I especially found the background research about all his other plays, particularly insightful and it helped me understand the play better.
Vivien Leigh also played Blanche in the West End production prior to her casting in this film. It’s also not the first scene where a man takes off his shirt in cinema. Not sure who was first, but Clark Gable did it in 1934 in IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT.
Hi. Thanks so much for the fascinating info, makes such a change from the same old contextual points. Could you point us towards where we can access Kazan’s notebooks from 1947 that you reference? I’d really like to read them. Thanks
