# The Rose Tattoo and Other Plays

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- Authors: [Tennessee Williams](https://www.bookquiver.com/tennessee-williams)
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-650-4
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2009-03-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.