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Serafina delle Rose

The Rose Tattoo

Tennessee Williams

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Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act One, Scene Five
Time & Place
1950s, Serafina's house
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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I count up the nights I held him all night in my arms, and I can tell you how many. Each night for twelve years. Four thousand--three hundred--and eighty. The number of nights I held him in my arms. [... … …]

End:

I’m satisfied to remember the love of a man that was mine--only mine! Never touched by the hand of nobody! Nobody but me!--Just me!

For the full extended monologue, please refer to: Tennessee Williams, The Rose Tattoo. New Directions, 2010. pp.38.

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