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Madrid: Cátedra, (10a ed. 1983), 199 p., 18 cm (Letras Hispánicas; 43)
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La casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba) was one of the last plays to be written by Lorca, shortly before he was executed by the Franco regime at the age of 38, in 1936. It was not performed until 1945 several years after his death. Along with Blood Wedding and Yerma it forms Lorca's Rural Trilogy.
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LibraryThing member MeditationesMartini
This is dark, totally dark--a tyrant mother and her five daughters, youth springing eternal into hope but twisted, the sisters nosing toward the light like mole people and loving and fearing each other and the mother's whip hand coming down and of course it ends in BLOOD--and I can imagine it being
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very powerful onstage, though I only read the script, alas me. Show Less
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Audie Award (Finalist — 2022)
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1935
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199 p.; 18 cm
ISBN
8437600685 / 9788437600680