This is a valuable book for anyone interested in Williams and his most popular play. Kolin covers a great deal of fascinating productions and the role that the world's major directors have played in them--Kazan, Olivier, Ingrid Bergman, Cocteau, and Visconti. Drawing on reviews, interviews, and some very hard to find archival materials, Kolin takes us behind the scenes as we learn about how actors played Stanley and Blanche over the last fifty years. There are fascinating chapters, too, on the film and teleplay versions of Streetcar as well as the ballet and gay adaptations of Streetcar. Everything you ever wanted to know about Streetcar is here. Meticulously documented and artfully written--the photos are incredible.

Philip Kolin has collected the most contemporary critical essays on Shakespeare's version of Ovid's Venus and Adonis. "In addition to examining the critical commentary in light of historical and theatrical events, each introduction functions as a discursive bibliographical essay that cites and evaluates significant critical works--essays, journal articles, dissertations, books, theatre documents--and gives readers a guide to the research on a particular play or poem." (Editor's Introduction) Individual essays are thought-provoking, argumentative and intellectual perspectives which enhance the reading pleasure and knowledge of the Bard's work. This collection of essays will save the scholar and student hours of searching the MLA Bibliography for independent works.