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The Rose Tattoo and Other Plays

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141186504

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 258g

  • RRP: £12.99

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.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141186504

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 258g

  • RRP: £12.99

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About the Author

Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier Williams) was born in 1911 in Mississippi where he was brought up before moving to St Louis. He studied at the Universities of Washington and Iowa, and in New York while embarking on a career as a playwright. He achieved popular and critical success with many of his plays including The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He also wrote a novella, and some collections of poems and short stories. His Memoirs appeared in 1975. He died in 1983.

Tennessee Williams

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