Plastic Theatre in A Streetcar Named Desire
1. Introduction “I don’t want realism. […] I want […] magic!” (Williams, Streetcar Named Desire 130) It is Blanche DuBois who states this quotation in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. In this drama from 1947, two worlds, embodied by the two characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski, clash. That conflict between realism and […]