Yerma (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Garcia Lorca, Federi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8423918807 ISBN 13: 9788423918805

Publisher: COLECCION AUSTRAL, 1997

Synopsis

The second of Lorca's great trilogy of rural dramas, Yerma is a concentrated blend of contrasting moods through which Lorca charts the increasingly destructive obsession of a childless young country wife, and probes the darker zones of human fears and desires. The play's rich mode of expression - a powerful combination of verbal, visual and auditory images and rhythms - is also geared to celebrating sexual attraction and fertility, creation and procreation. Through his characterization of the play's central figure, Lorca raises the question of women's social status - a controversial question both then and now, and one to which Robin Warner pays particular attention in his critical introduction to the play. He also examines the links between the dramatic structure of Yerma and the importance of cultural politics during the turbulent course of the Second Spanish Republic. The Spanish text is supported by an introduction and notes in English, as well as by an extensive vocabulary and section of discussion questions.

About this title

About the Author:

Simon Stone is an Australian film and theatre director, writer and actor. In 2011 Stone became the Resident Director at Belvoir. In his first year in the role he wrote and directed The Wild Duck, after Henrik Ibsen, which won the 2011 Helpmann Award for Best Play and was staged in London at the Barbican in 2014. His reworking of Yerma at the Young Vic in 2016 was critically acclaimed and won two Oliviers: Best Actress for Billie Piper, and Best Revival.

Language Notes:

Text: Spanish

About this edition

• Publisher: COLECCION AUSTRAL
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 8423918807
• ISBN 13: 9788423918805
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 166