The Rose Tattoo and Other Plays

In these three exotic, steamy dramas Tennessee Williams portrays loss, faded lives and passionate love affairs.

The Rose Tattoo is set in a bustling, Sicilian-American community, where newly widowed Serafina is paralysed by grief, until she has her romantic illusions about her dead husband shattered and rediscovers her true nature as a fiery prima donna, in a life-affirming celebration of love and sex. Tennessee Williams explores a new ''wild and unrestricted'' theatrical form in the colourful tropical fantasy Camino Real, while Orpheus Descending, however, takes us into the dark territory of the Deep South: the corrupt hell of a small, brutal township, where a forbidden and tragic love affair sparks horrific violence.

• | Author: Tennessee Williams
• | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: Mar 05, 2009
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780141186504
• | ISBN-10: 014118650X