TY  - BOOK
AU  - García Lorca,Federico
TI  - The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays: Blood wedding ; Yerma ; The house of Bernarda Alba
SN  - 9780141185750
U1  - 862 
PY  - 1992///
CY  - London
PB  - Penguin
KW  - Drama
KW  - 20th Century
KW  - Spanish Literature
KW  - Tragedies
KW  - TH
N1  - IB
N2  - Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work Blood Wedding, Yerma, and The House of Bernarda Alba, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author; The revolutionary genius of Spanish theater, Lorca brought vivid and tragic poetry to the stage with these three powerful dramas.  In the play 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 defenses of the imagination: in Christopher Maurer's words, 'poetic frama unsurpassed by any writer of our time.'
ER  -