Blood Wedding (NHB Drama Classics) (NHB Classic Plays) - Softcover

Federico Garcia Lorca

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854597922 ISBN 13: 9781854597922

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 2008

Synopsis

Number 82 in Nick Hern Book's Drama Classics series, providing great drama at a great price. Includes the full text, plus a short introduction that takes in the life of the playwright, the plot and background, and explores the themes of the play.

Written in 1932, Blood Wedding is set in rural Southern Spain, where Lorca grew up. It tells of a peasant bride who elopes with her former lover on the very day of her wedding. Both bridegroom and lover die in the inevitable fight that follows. Newly translated and introduced by Jo Clifford, this established masterpiece is both accurate and actable, ideal for study and performance.

About this title

Review:

Lorca's drama of forbidden passion, family feud and devouring maternal love and grief is succulent with symbolism. --The Times

Book Description:

A play written by the Spanish poet and dramatist who was murdered by Nationalist partisans in July 1936, shortly after the outbreak of Civil War. Commissioned and performed by the highly acclaimed Communicado Theatre Company, this translation won a Fringe First at the 1988 Edinburgh Festival.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1854597922
• ISBN 13: 9781854597922
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128