Blood Wedding (Bodas de Sangre) - Softcover

Lorca, Federico Garcia; Hughes, Ted

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571190065 ISBN 13: 9780571190065

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1996

Synopsis

Lorca's Blood Wedding is a classic of twentieth-century theatre. The story is based on a newspaper fragment which told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with the son of the enemy family. Lorca uses it to investigate the subjects which fascinated him: desire, repression, ritual, and the constraints and commitments of the rural Spanish community in which the play is rooted. Ted Hughes's version stays close in spirit and letter to the original Spanish. With marvellous directness, he fused Lorca's vision to his own, and the result is a powerful poetic text which captures all the violence and pathos of the play for an English-speaking audience.

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Synopsis:

Ted Hughes captures the violence and pathos of Lorca's original story. Based on a bride who ran away with the son of an enemy family, this work investigates desire, depression and the constraints of the rural Spanish community in which the play is rooted.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0571190065
• ISBN 13: 9780571190065
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72