Three Tragedies (New Directions Paperbook): Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alba: 52 - Softcover

Garcia Lorca, Federico; Graham–luján, James; O`connell, Richard L.; Lorca, Francisco Garcí

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811200922 ISBN 13: 9780811200929

Publisher: New Directions, 1955

Synopsis

Blood Wedding. Concerned with love that cannot become marriage among the primitive hill people of Castile, this is a play of the workings of tremendous passions and tribal ritual toward an inescapable tragic end. Yerma. "The whole tragic burden of Yerma is measured by the deepening of her struggle with the problem of frustrated motherhood." --From García Lorca, by Edwin Honig. The House of Bernarda Alba. Again about "women whom love moves to tragedy," Bernarda Alba tells of the repression of five daughters by a domineering mother, of how their natural spirits circumvent her but bring violence and death.

About this title

Review:

Lorca is such a virtuoso of the theatre that he can use and control all its resources to present his poetic vision.

About the Author:

Federico García 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-Luján is a translator and playwright.

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

Francisco García Lorca (1902 - 1976) was a Spanish writer and historian, younger brother of Federico García Lorca.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1955
• ISBN 10: 0811200922
• ISBN 13: 9780811200929
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 202