The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays

Name: The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Federico Garcia Lorca
ISBN: 9780141185750

Federico Garcia Lorca

26/04/2001
Penguin Classics

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays par Federico Garcia Lorca

Résumé

In The House of Bernarda Alba, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here also portray female characters whose desires are tragically and violently frustrated: a woman’s longing for a child in Yerma, and a bride’s yearning for her lover in Blood Wedding. All appeal for freedom and sexual and social equality, and are also passionate defences of the imagination: in Christopher Maurer’s words, ‘poetic drama unsurpassed by any writer of our time’.