This volume gathers three of Federico García Lorca's rural tragedies. Blood Wedding follows a bride who runs off with her former lover on her wedding day, which leads to a deadly confrontation in the forest. Yerma is about a woman whose desperate longing for a child poisons her marriage. The House of Bernarda Alba shows a widow who imposes eight years of mourning on her five daughters, sealing them in the house until repression erupts. All three are set in the Spanish countryside and combine poetry with folk imagery.
Theater readers, students of Spanish literature and anyone curious about Lorca will find the three plays tightly linked in their concerns with honor, desire and women's confinement.
Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
Best for readers like The Wisdom Collector. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 2022
- Publisher
- Lumen
- ISBN
- 9788426424150
- Language
- ES
