Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, , language: English, abstract: "A Streetcar Named Desire" is a play that was written by famous American playwright Tennessee Williams in 1947. The play received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama the next year after it was written. The play opened on December 3, 1947 on Broadway and was closed on December 17, 1949 in the ...