Three classic plays from the preeminent American playright are presented in this collection that examines the power of love and the limits of evil. Sweet Bird of Youth-- is a three-act drama by Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright Tennessee Williams. First performed in 1959, the play chronicles the relationship between shiftless gigolo Chance Wayne and alcoholic has-been movie star Alexandra Del Lago, a.k.a. Princess Kosmonopolis. Chance has brought the Princess to his hometown of St. Cloud, Florida, in hope of reclaiming his former glory—and his former girlfriend—while using the Princess to launch a movie career of his own. The Rose Tattoo--In front of a small cottage on the Louisiana Gulf Coast, three small children are playing and discussing the weather when they hear their mothers calling them in for supper. Serafina, a striking, voluptuous Sicilian woman, is setting the table for her daughter, Rosa, and husband, Rosario, whom she is expecting any moment. Assunta, an old apothecary, comes in, offering to sell Serafina an aphrodisiac for Rosario. Serafina informs her that they need no such assistance. While they sit and wait, Serafina tells Assunta about how she could tell she was pregnant with the baby she is carrying; Rosario has a tattoo of a rose on his chest, and the morning after the child was conceived, Serafina woke up with a burning pain on her breast and there was a copy of the tattoo on her. From this early point in the plot of The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams it is clear that the rose tattoo will have great symbolic significance.