The House Of Bernarda Alba: La casa de Bernarda Alba (Student Editions) - Softcover

Federico García Lorca

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0713686774 ISBN 13: 9780713686777

Publisher: Methuen Drama, 2007

Synopsis

Bernarda Alba is a widow, and her five daughters are incarcerated in mourning along with her. One by one they make a bid for freedom, with tragic consequences. Lorca's tale depicts the repression of women within Catholic Spain in the years before the war. The House of Bernarda Alba is Lorca's last and possibly finest play, completed shortly before he was murdered by Nationalist sympathisers at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Inspired by real characters and described by the author as 'a true record of village life', it is a tragic tale of frustration and explosive passions in a household of women rulled by a tyrannical mother. Edited with invaluable student notes - a must for students of Spanish drama

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Review:

'Best of all is Ann Mitchell's superb Bernarda Alba, who presides over her daughters like a malevolent mother superior. As polished and shiney as her own furniture, a husk of a woman who puts pride and honour before love and generosity, and who is so out of touch with her own heart that she ignores all the signs of the coming disaster, content to rule her house with her eyes wide shut.' Lyn Gardner, Gaurdian, 30 April 2009 It is a play about what happens to hearts when they are walled up and denied the opportunity to sweel with love and happiness' Lyn Gardener, Gaurdian, 30 April 2009

Book Description:

The House of Bernarda Alba - David Hare's translation of a play by Federico García Lorca, the great Spanish playwright and poet - speaks as powerfully as a political metaphor of oppression as it does a domestic drama.

About this edition

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0713686774
• ISBN 13: 9780713686777
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208