Five Plays: Comedies and Tragicomedies - Softcover

Garcia Lorca, Federico

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9780811200905: Five Plays: Comedies and Tragicomedies

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ISBN 10: 0811200906 ISBN 13: 9780811200905

Publisher: New Directions, 1963

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Two additional comedies, published here in book form in English for the first time, are The Billy-Club Puppets ― a guignol-type farce with delicate wit; and The Butterfly’s Evil Spell, an "insect comedy" about a beetle-poet who aspires to be a butterfly.

Federico Garc�a Lorca’s position as one of the few geniuses of the modern theatre was firmly established in the English-speaking world with his Three Tragedies. Here, with an introduction by the dramatist’s brother, Francisco Garc�a Lorca, are five of his “comedies,” in the authorized translations, extensively revised to reflect recent Lorca scholarship and to convey the sparkle, freshness, and magic of the original Spanish. The Shoemaker’s Prodigious Wife tells of a young beauty married to an old man, a theme that often concerned Lorca. The resolution for the earnest shoemaker, who leaves home and comes back disguised as a puppeteer, is lighthearted, but there is underlying pathos. The Love of Don Perlimplin is again about a girl who weds someone much older, this time a bookish, 18th-century gentleman, who seeks an original but sardonic way out of the situation. According to Lorca himself, “Dona Rosita is the outer gentleness and inner scorching of a girl in Granada who, little by little, turns into that grotesque and moving thing ― an old maid in Spain.”

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Federico Garcia Lorca's position as one of the few geniuses of the modern theatre was firmly established in the English-speaking world with his Three Tragedies. Here with an introduction by the dramatist's brother, Francisco Garcia Lorca, are five of his 'comedies, ' in the authorized translations, extensively revised to reflect recent Lorca scholarship and to convey the sparkle, freshness, and magic of the original Spanish.

About the Author:

Federico Garc�a Lorca (1898-1937) was born in Granada, Spain. A poet and playwright (Blood Wedding, The House of Bernarda Alba), he was killed by the Falangists in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.

James Graham-Luj�n is a translator and playwright.

Richard L. O'Connell was a translator and playwright.

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