The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays
$26.15
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
14 June 2001
Summary
In The House of Bernarda Alba, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here also portray female characters whose desires are tragically and violently frustrated: a woman’s longing for a child in Yerma, and a bride’s yearning for her lover in Blood Wedding. All appeal for freedom and sexual and social equality, and are also passionate defences of the imagination: in Christopher Maurer’s words, ‘poetic drama unsurpassed by any writer of our time’.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141185750 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141185759 |
| Author: | Federico García Lorca, Christopher Maurer, Carmen Zapata, Michael Dewell |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 14 June 2001 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 129mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
Federico García Lorca
Federico García Lorca was born into an educated family of small landowners in Fuente Vaqueros in 1898. In 1928, his Gipsy-Ballad Book (Romancero gitano) received much public acclaim. In 1929, he went to New York, and his volume of poems Poet in New York (Poeta en Nueva York) was published posthumously in 1940.
On his return to republican Spain, he devoted himself to the theatre, as co-director of La Barraca, a government-sponsored student theatrical company that toured the country. He wrote fewer poems during this period, but these include his masterpiece Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias (Llanto por la muerte de Ignacio Sanchez Mejias, 1935), a lament for a dead bullfighter.
He also wrote classical plays, pantomimic interludes, and puppet plays, including La zapatera prodigiosa (1930), and three tragedies: Blood Wedding (Bodas de sangre, 1933), Yerma (1934), and The House of Bernarda Alba (La casa de Bernarda Alba, 1936).
Just after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, he was murdered at Granada by Nationalist partisans in mysterious circumstances.
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