a powerful play (1947) by the US writer Tennessee ↑Williams which won the ↑Pulitzer Prize. The main characters are a rough and aggressive man called Stanley Kowalski and his wife’s delicate sister Blanche DuBois who is driven mad by Kowalski when she visits them in ↑New Orleans. A film version (1951) directed by Elia Kazan, with Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, won four ↑Oscars.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.