The Rose Tattoo
The Rose Tattoo

Author: Tennessee Williams

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2010-04

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 0811218821

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Larger than life - a fable, a Greek tragedy, a comedy, a melodrama - the Tony Award-winning The Rose Tattoo is a valentine from Tennessee Williams to anyone who has ever been in love. In the midst of her anger and grief over news that her late husband had been unfaithful, Serafina delle Rose is courted by a Sicilian truck driver who has the virile body of her husband and the face of a clown - his name, Mangiacavallo, means "eat a horse" in Italian. Teary-eyed, he declares, "I am a human being that drives a truck for bananas." His clumsy flirting unlocks Serafina's fiery passion, wit and eventually, her capacious love.

The Rose Tattoo ; Camino Real ; Orpheus Descending
The Rose Tattoo ; Camino Real ; Orpheus Descending

Author: Tennessee Williams

Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9780141186504

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Loss, faded lies and passionate love affairs . . . Three exotic, steamy dramas in which Tennessee Williams takes us from a bustling Sicilian-American community and a life-affirming celebration of love and sex in The Rose Tattoo, into a colourful tropical fantasy in Camino Royal and then finally into the familiar dark territory of Williams' Deep South in Orpheus Descending: the corrupt hell of a small, brutal township, where a forbidden and tragic love affair sparks horrific violence.

The Traveling Companion and Other Plays
The Traveling Companion and Other Plays

Author: Tennessee Williams

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780811217088

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"Collected here for the first time, these twelve plays embrace what Time magazine called "the four major concerns of Williams' dramatic imagination: loneliness, love, the violated heart and the valiancy of survival"--Back cover.

The Magic Tower and Other One-act Plays
The Magic Tower and Other One-act Plays

Author: Tennessee Williams

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780811219204

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This new volume gathers some of Williams' most exuberant early work and includes one-acts that he would later expand to powerful full-length dramas, including "The Pretty Trap," a cheerful take on "The Glass Menagerie," and "Interior: Panic," a stunning precursor to "A Streetcar Named Desire."

Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer
Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer

Author: Tennessee Williams

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2012-12-11

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 0811225321

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Two of Tennessee Williams's most revered dramas in a single paperback edition for the first time. Orpheus Descending is a love story, a plea for spiritual and artistic freedom, as well as a portrait of racism and intolerance. When charismatic drifter Valentine Xavier arrives in a Mississippi Delta town with his guitar and snakeskin jacket, he becomes a trigger for hatred and a magnet for three outcast souls: storekeeper Lady Torrance, “lewd vagrant” Carol Cutrere, and religious visionary Vee Talbot. Suddenly Last Summer, described by its author as a “short morality play,” has become one of his most notorious works due in no small part to the film version starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift that shocked audiences in 1959. A menacing tale of madness, jealousy, and denial,the horrors in Suddenly Last Summer build to a heart-stopping conclusion. With perceptive new introductions by playwright Martin Sherman — he reframes Orpheus Descending in a political context and explores the psychology and sensationalism surrounding Suddenly Last Summer — this volume also offers Williams’s related essay, “The Past, the Present, and the Perhaps,” and a chronology of the playwright’s life and works.

The Rose Tattoo and Other Plays
The Rose Tattoo and Other Plays

Author: Tennessee Williams

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2014-04-24

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0141975083

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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.

Girl with the Rose Tattoo
Girl with the Rose Tattoo

Author: Larry Weiss

Publisher:

Published: 2020-04-11

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13:

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Being Rob Crawley's old lady requires an inner strength that Tina Douglas lacks. The perfect, red Mary Magdalene rose inked on the nape of her neck becomes a touchstone in times of stress and anxiety, which are many. Tina views her future as bleak and dire and sees herself trapped "in a web of her own making."Rob, a full-patch member of the Cascade Warriors MC, dominates almost every aspect of her life, but he allows Tina one freedom, the opportunity to attend Valley Secondary School, and complete her high school education, which she believes will lead to a brighter future. By commencement day, Rob regrets his decision and takes Tina's graduation as an affront. He perceives his image with fellow gang members tarnished and plots his revenge.On the evening of the graduation dinner dance, Rob insists they leave the party early. He spirits Tina off to an isolated cabin in the hills at the south end of Stoney Lake. What transpires there sends her life into a tailspin until fate intervenes, and she crosses paths with Jenny Travis. Jenny becomes Tina's protector, ally, mentor, and best friend, helping her face the unrelenting vengeance of Rob and his henchmen.