Four Major Plays (Blood Wedding - Yerma - Tha house of Bernarda Alba - Doña Rosita the Spinster)
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780199537518
- ISBN10 0199537518
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 234
- Sammlung Oxford World's Classics #
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2008
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Gebunden
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English LiteraturFour Major Plays (Blood Wedding - Yerma - Tha house of Bernarda Alba - Doña Rosita the Spinster)
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
'I have made a terrible discovery ...I have not yet been born ...I live off borrowed substance; what I have within me is not mine.' In his four last plays Federico Garcia Lorca offered his disturbed and disturbing personal vision to Spanish audiences of the 1930s - unready, as he thought them, for the sexual frankness and surreal expression of his more experimental work. The ill-fated lovers of Blood Wedding, the desolate Yerma, the fading spinster Rosita, and Bernarda Alba's abused household of women all inhabit a familiar Andalusia. Their predicaments are starkly plotted, with a stagecraft rooted in classical theatrical tradition. In such figures Lorca addresses the cultural and political ferment of his time with a fiercely libertarian assault on 'old and wrong moralities', fusing the personal and the political through his virtuoso mastery of images. Yet all that mastery can barely keep at bay the anguished contradictions of these doomed human lives. Hence the authentic sense of danger - the duende, to use his own word of Lorca's theatre, finely conveyed here in John Edmunds's fluent and rhythmic new translations that lend themselves admirably to performance