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3Aristotle, The Poetics, trans., G. M. A. Grube, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1958, p. 3.
4Felica Hardison Londre, Tennessee Williams, New York:Frederick Publishing Co., 1979, p. 21.
5Lois Tyson, Critical Theory: A User-Friendly To- day, New York: Garland Publishing Inc. , 1999, p. 159, p. 179, p. 179, p. 159, p. 171.
6Kolin, "A Playwright's Forum" in Michigan quarterly Review (29 Spring 1990), p. 191.
7Lawrence J.Trudeau, Drama Criticism, Vol. 4 , Detroit:Gale Research Inc., 1994, p. 388.
8Tennessee Williams, ,Sweet Bird of Youth, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, ed., E. Martin Browne , NewYork: Penguin Books, 1962, p. 136. All further references to the text in this paper will be noted parenthetically according page number.
9Elia Kazan, "Note book for A Streetcar Named Desire," Directors on Directing, eds., Toby Cole and Helen Chinoy , Indianapolis: 1963, p. 371.