Lorca Plays: 1: Blood Wedding; Yerma; Dona Rosita the Spinster (World Classics) - Softcover

Lorca, Federico Garcia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0413157806 ISBN 13: 9780413157805

Publisher: Methuen Drama, 2008

Synopsis

These three tragedies were written at the height if Lorca's powers and display his innovative mix of Spanish popular tradition and modern dramatic technique. Blood Wedding tells the story of a couple drawn irresistibly together in the face of an arranged marriage; Doña Rosita the Spinster follows the appalling fate of a young woman beguiled into the expectation of marriage and left stranded for a lifetime whilst Yerma is possibly Lorca's harshest play following a woman's Herculean struggle against the curse of infertility. Set in and around his home territory, Granada, the plays return again and again to the lives of passionate individuals, particularly women, trapped by the social conventions of narrow peasant communities. The plays appear here in new playable translations.

About this title

About the Author:

Federico García Lorca, one of Spain?s greatest poets and dramatists, was born in a village near Granada in 1898 and was murdered in 1936, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Spanish (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0413157806
• ISBN 13: 9780413157805
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208