On a Streetcar Named Success

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"On a Streetcar Named Success" is an essay by Tennessee Williams about the corrupting impact of fame on the artist. [1] The essay first appeared in The New York Times on November 30, 1947, four days before the premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire . [2] [1] It was later republished as "The Catastrophe of Success" and often appears as an introduction to The Glass Menagerie . [2]

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  1. 1 2 Neri, Barbara (2018). "Loving Thee Better after Death: Williams's Allusion to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Her Sonnets from the Portuguese in A Streetcar Named Desire" . The Tennessee Williams Annual Review (17): 67–92. doi:10.2307/48615444. JSTOR   48615444.
  2. 1 2 Bak, John S. (January 2024). "'Before We Met': Tennessee Williams, Robert Carter, and the 'Catastrophe' of Post-1945 Friendships". Tennessee Williams Annual Review (23): 55–71 – via EBSCOhost.

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