The Rose Tattoo / Camino Real
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Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Two of Tennessee Williams' most celebrated stage works appear together in this Penguin Plays volume, offering readers a rich double bill of mid-twentieth-century American drama. The Rose Tattoo is a passionate and earthy comedy set in a Sicilian-American Gulf Coast community, chronicling the grief and sensual reawakening of Serafina Delle Rose, a widow consumed by devotion to her late husband's memory. Camino Real is a bold, expressionistic fantasy that presents a surreal landscape populated by literary and historical figures — from Don Quixote to Casanova — trapped in a nightmarish, timeless plaza, arguing through poetic imagery for the indestructibility of the human spirit. Together, these two plays illustrate Williams' extraordinary range — from warm, grounded naturalism to daring theatrical experiment — and confirm his place as one of the defining voices of the American stage.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Two of Tennessee Williams' most celebrated stage works appear together in this Penguin Plays volume, offering readers a rich double bill of mid-twentieth-century American drama. The Rose Tattoo is a passionate and earthy comedy set in a Sicilian-American Gulf Coast community, chronicling the grief and sensual reawakening of Serafina Delle Rose, a widow consumed by devotion to her late husband's memory. Camino Real is a bold, expressionistic fantasy that presents a surreal landscape populated by literary and historical figures — from Don Quixote to Casanova — trapped in a nightmarish, timeless plaza, arguing through poetic imagery for the indestructibility of the human spirit. Together, these two plays illustrate Williams' extraordinary range — from warm, grounded naturalism to daring theatrical experiment — and confirm his place as one of the defining voices of the American stage.
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Two of Tennessee Williams' most celebrated stage works appear together in this Penguin Plays volume, offering readers a rich double bill of mid-twentieth-century American drama. The Rose Tattoo is a passionate and earthy comedy set in a Sicilian-American Gulf Coast community, chronicling the grief and sensual reawakening of Serafina Delle Rose, a widow consumed by devotion to her late husband's memory. Camino Real is a bold, expressionistic fantasy that presents a surreal landscape populated by literary and historical figures — from Don Quixote to Casanova — trapped in a nightmarish, timeless plaza, arguing through poetic imagery for the indestructibility of the human spirit. Together, these two plays illustrate Williams' extraordinary range — from warm, grounded naturalism to daring theatrical experiment — and confirm his place as one of the defining voices of the American stage.
