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Available
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Publication
New Directions (1955), Paperback, 202 pages
Description
Blood Wedding. Concerned with love that cannot become marriage among the primitive hill people of Castile, this is a play of the workings of tremendous passions and tribal ritual toward an inescapable tragic end.Yerma. "The whole tragic burden of Yerma is measured by the deepening of her struggle with the problem of frustrated motherhood." --FromGarcía Lorca, by Edwin Honig.The House of Bernarda Alba. Again about "women whom love moves to tragedy,"Bernarda Alba tells of the repression of five daughters by a domineering mother, of how their natural spirits circumvent her but bring violence and death.
User reviews
LibraryThing member MeditationesMartini
This is a beautiful and subtle inquiry into what it's like for someone desperate for a child to be denied a child, and thought it's pretty much said all it has to say by the last act, the first two-thirds of it cut me to the quick again and again.
LibraryThing member MarieTea
This translation was created for the stage and is noted to be very readable also. Of interest to me: the cover illustration is Dama espanola sentada by Fredrico Garcia Lorca.
LibraryThing member lucybrown
I have only read The House of Bernarda Alba
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Original language
Spanish
Physical description
202 p.; 7.8 inches
ISBN
0811200922 / 9780811200929
Local notes
Blood Wedding. Yerma. Bernarda Alba