A Streetcar Named Desire 外国文学导读指南系列丛书.pdf

s A T E A C H E R ’ S G U I D E T O T H E S I G N E T E D I T I O N O F TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’S A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE By ROBERT C. SMALL, JR., Ed.D., Radford University S E R I E S E D I T O R S : W. GEIGER ELLIS, ED.D., UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, EMERITUS and ARTHEA J. S. REED, PH.D., UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, RETIRED ISBN: 0-451-52992-8 Copyright © 2004 by Penguin Group (USA) For additional teacher’s manuals, catalogs, or descriptive brochures, please email academic@ or write to: PENGUIN GROUP (USA) INC. Academic Marketing Department 375 Hudson Street New York, NY 10014-3657 /academic In Canada, write to: PENGUIN GROUP CANADA Academic Sales 10 Alcorn Avenue, Suite 300 Toronto, Ontario Canada M4V 3B2 Printed in the United States of America A Teacher’s Guide to the Signet Edition of Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire 3 TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S INTRODUCTION 4 Teaching the Play 4 About the Author 4 About the Play5 Staging of the Play5 CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY6 SYNOPSIS OF THE PLAY8 TEACHING THE PLAY 13 Suggested Activities before Reading the Play 13 Suggested Activities while Reading the Play15 Suggested Activities after Reading the Play16 BIBLIOGRAPHY18 ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THIS GUIDE21 ABOUT THE EDITORS OF THIS GUIDE 21 FREE TEACHER’S GUIDES23 4 A Teacher’s Guide to the Signet Edition of Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire I N T R O D U C T I O N TEACHING THE PLAY Although A Streetcar Named Desire might seem to be a simple play about rather unsophisticated people, a careful study reveals considerable complexity both in