15 Best plays books like The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams

Cover of The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams

The Rose Tattoo

By: Tennessee Williams

3.67

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A tender idyll about a Sicilian woman who must get over the death of her husband. "Forget the uneve…

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Cover of The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, John Willett, Ralph Manheim

1. The Threepenny Opera

By: Bertolt Brecht , Kurt Weill , John Willett , Ralph Manheim

3.89

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

The Threepenny Opera was Brecht's first and greatest commercial success, and it remains one of his … read more

Similar categories in Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera book and Tennessee Williams's The Rose Tattoo

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • plays
  • drama
"He thought in other heads, and in his own, others besides himself thought"

-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

"Mankind lives by its head Its head won't see him through Inspect your own. What lives off that? At most a louse or two."

-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

"You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy, but till you feed us right and wrong can wait. Or is it only those who have the money who can enter the land of milk and honey?"

-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

"1.Tanrı: Ne biçim dünya bu? Her yanda sefalet, bayağılık, pislik! Doğayı da katletmişler.Güzelim ağaçları tellerle idam etmişler.Dağların ötesinde duman bulutlarından göz gözü görmüyor. Gök gürültüsü…"

-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

Cover of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

By: Edward Albee

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's A… read more

Similar categories in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? book and Tennessee Williams's The Rose Tattoo

  • classics
  • american
  • the united states of america
  • theatre
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Honey: I know these people ..."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"You want to dance with me, angel tits?"

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"Musical beds is the faculty sport around here."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Cover of The Balcony by Jean Genet

3. The Balcony

By: Jean Genet

3.81

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Book jacket/back: The setting of Jean Genet's celebrated play is a brothel that caters to refined s… read more

Similar categories in Jean Genet's The Balcony book and Tennessee Williams's The Rose Tattoo

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • plays
  • drama
"The pimp has a grin, never a smile."

-Jean Genet, The Balcony

"It's a true image, born of a false spectacle."

-Jean Genet, The Balcony

"It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go."

-Jean Genet, The Balcony

"One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house."

-Jean Genet, The Balcony

Cover of Incident at Vichy by Arthur Miller

4. Incident at Vichy

By: Arthur Miller

3.98

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In Vichy France in 1942, eight men and a boy are seized by the collaborationist authorities and mad… read more

Similar categories in Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy book and Tennessee Williams's The Rose Tattoo

  • classics
  • american
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Cocktail Party by T.S. Eliot

5. The Cocktail Party

By: T.S. Eliot

3.74

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

'Eliot has attempted here something very daring and well worth doing. He has taken the ordinary Wes… read more

Similar categories in T.S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party book and Tennessee Williams's The Rose Tattoo

  • classics
  • american
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • plays
  • drama
"Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it."

-T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

"There's no memory you can wrap in camphor But the moths will get in."

-T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

"Half the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important."

-T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

"Your burden is not to clear your conscience But to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience."

-T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

Cover of The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams

6. The Rose Tattoo

By: Tennessee Williams

3.67

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A tender idyll about a Sicilian woman who must get over the death of her husband. "Forget the uneve… read more

Similar categories in Tennessee Williams's The Rose Tattoo book and Tennessee Williams's The Rose Tattoo

  • classics
  • american
  • the united states of america
  • theatre
  • american fiction
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • southern gothic
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Blasted by Sarah Kane

7. Blasted

By: Sarah Kane

3.81

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Blastedis Sarah Kane's first full-length play which opened in 1995 and was the sensation of that ye… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Kane's Blasted book and Tennessee Williams's The Rose Tattoo

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Zoo Story by Edward Albee

8. The Zoo Story

By: Edward Albee

3.90

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

The Zoo Story is a one-act play by American playwright Edward Albee. His first play, it was written… read more

Similar categories in Edward Albee's The Zoo Story book and Tennessee Williams's The Rose Tattoo

  • classics
  • american
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • plays
  • drama
"Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly."

-Edward Albee, The Zoo Story

"Now, here is what I had wanted to happen: I had tried to love, and I had tried to kill, and both had been unsuccessful by themselves."

-Edward Albee, The Zoo Story

Cover of Platonov by Anton Chekhov, David Hare

9. Platonov

By: Anton Chekhov , David Hare

4.03

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

In 1997, David Hare adapted the little-known play, Ivanov, and revealed the young Anton Chekhov as … read more

Similar categories in Anton Chekhov's Platonov book and Tennessee Williams's The Rose Tattoo

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee

10. The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?

By: Edward Albee

3.92

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Albee’s most provocative, daring, and controversial play si… read more

Similar categories in Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? book and Tennessee Williams's The Rose Tattoo

  • classics
  • american
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Knowing it--knowing it's true is one thing, but believing what you know... well, there's the tough part."

-Edward Albee, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?

Cover of The Misanthrope/ Tartuffe by Molière, Richard Wilbur

11. The Misanthrope/ Tartuffe

By: Molière , Richard Wilbur

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

Critics have heralded Richard Wilbur's translations of Moliere's seventeenth-century dramas as mast… read more

Similar categories in Molière's The Misanthrope/ Tartuffe book and Tennessee Williams's The Rose Tattoo

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Happy Days by Samuel Beckett

12. Happy Days

By: Samuel Beckett

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 'Happy Days, ' Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the t… read more

Similar categories in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days book and Tennessee Williams's The Rose Tattoo

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw

13. Caesar and Cleopatra

By: George Bernard Shaw

3.84

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra book and Tennessee Williams's The Rose Tattoo

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama

14. The Odd Couple

By: Neil Simon

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Comedy / 6m, 2f / Int. This classic comedy opens as a group of the guys assembled for cards in the … read more

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15. The School for Scandal

By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan

2.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

"The School for Scandal" is Richard Brinsley Sheridan's classic comedy that pokes fun at London upp… read more

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16. Exiles

By: James Joyce

3.56

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

The only extant play by the great Irish novelist, Exiles is of interest both for its autobiographic… read more

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17. Ivanov

By: Anton Chekhov , None , None

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first of Chekhov's full-length dramas, Ivanov treads a fine line between broad comedy and tragi… read more

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Cover of Closer: A Play by Patrick Marber

18. Closer: A Play

By: Patrick Marber

3.97

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

In Closer, Patrick Marber has created a brilliant exploration into the brutal anatomy of modern rom… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Marber's Closer: A Play book and Tennessee Williams's The Rose Tattoo

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • plays
  • drama
"I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts."

-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

"DAN What do you want? ALICE To be loved. DAN That simple? ALICE It's a big want."

-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

"Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come...like a train...but with...elegance."

-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

Cover of L'École des Femmes by Molière

19. L'École des Femmes

By: Molière

3.62

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

L’École des femmes est une comédie en cinq actes et en vers. La comédie de Molière L'École des … read more

Similar categories in Molière's L'École des Femmes book and Tennessee Williams's The Rose Tattoo

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Burned Out by Dean Mafako

20. Burned Out

By: Dean Mafako

4.30

Format: 526 pages, Paperback

Eric Philson came to the Children's Hospital of Biloxi with a goal ― to build the cardiac intensive… read more

Similar categories in Dean Mafako's Burned Out book and Tennessee Williams's The Rose Tattoo

  • fiction
"The entire belief was insulting to many of us, but nonetheless, the term “top trained,"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"The hypocrisy was too much to bear, the institution was paying over a million dollars for Mr. Hyde to perform “values training"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"When I arrived, I did the job of six people and worked over one hundred hours per week for more than a year until I collapsed in my yard and nearly died!"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"One of the greatest realizations that I clumsily stumbled upon during this process, was that these people didn’t need someone like me to tell them what to do; they needed someone like me to show them…"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

Cover of Wife For Sale by Tabita Gutu

21. Wife For Sale

By: Tabita Gutu

4.41

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Take an unhappy married couple with a small baby, a man whose wife died in a tragic accident and ca… read more

Similar categories in Tabita Gutu's Wife For Sale book and Tennessee Williams's The Rose Tattoo

  • drama

16 Best fiction books like The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams

Transform Your Habits

The Threepenny Opera

Bertolt Brecht , Kurt Weill , John Willett , Ralph Manheim

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Balcony

Jean Genet

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Incident at Vichy

Arthur Miller

3.98

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14 must-read fiction books like Burned Out by Dean Mafako

Transform Your Habits

J.B.: A Play in Verse

Archibald MacLeish

3.69

Transform Your Habits

The Playboy of the Western World & Riders to the Sea

J.M. Synge

2.70

Transform Your Habits

The Heidi Chronicles: Uncommon Women and Others & Isn't It Romantic

Wendy Wasserstein

5.00

Transform Your Habits

Four Major Plays, Vol. 1: A Doll House / The Wild Duck / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder

Henrik Ibsen , Rolf Fjelde

3.93

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