A collection of eleven critical essays on Williams's play "A Streetcar Named Desire" arranged in chronological order of publication.

America's new culture hero : feelings without words /Robert Brustein -- Truth and dramatic mode in A streetcar named Desire / Alvin B. Kernan -- A streetcar named Desire : Nietzsche descending / Joseph N. Riddel -- The tragic downfall of Blanche DuBois / Leonard Berkman -- Tennessee Williams : streetcar to glory / C.W.E. Bigsby -- Realism and theatricalism in A streetcar named Desire / Mary Ann Corrigan -- The cards indicate a voyage on A streetcar named Desire / Leonard Quirino -- Drama of intimacy and tragedy of incomprehension : A streetcar named Desire reconsidered / Bert Cardullo -- From "Tarantula Arms" to "Della Robbia Blue" : the Tennessee Williams tragicomic transit authority / John M. Roderick. Madonna at the poker night : pictorial elements in Tennessee Williams's A streetcar named Desire / Henry I. Schvey -- The fate of the symbolic in A streetcar named Desire / Kathleen Hulley.