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Author
Series
Biblioteca contemporánea ; 141
Publisher
Editorial Losada
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
Español
Author
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Weaving together twenty-one full-color drawings and new translations of prose pieces and poems, Only Mystery presents a textured life of Spain's greatest modern poet and playwright. In 1936 a death squad executed thirty-eight-year-old Federico Garcia Lorca, dumping the body into an unmarked common grave near his native city of Granada. This volume of his visual art - largely unknown - and his writing chronicles Lorca's short existence, beginning with...
Author
Publisher
Smith and Kraus
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"This collection brings together new original English-language translations of Federico García Lorca's so-called 'impossible' plays, as well as new translations of thirteen of his most recognized poems from his Poet in New York cycle. Along with translations are essays on Lorca's work by some of the most prominent Lorca scholars currently working today, and cover art and dramaturgical notes by esteemed Catalan painter, scenic designer, and filmmaker...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
In these three plays, García Lorca's acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded his audience that dramatic poetry--or poetic drama--depends less on formal convention that on an elemental, radical outlook on human life. His images are beautiful and exact, but until now no translator had ever been able to make his characters speak unaffectedly on the American stage. Michael Dewell of the National Repertory...
Publisher
Cinemateca
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
After her husband's death, Bernarda Alba forces her five daughters into eight years of strict mourning. The appearance of Pepe El Romano, a man who wishes to marry the eldest daughter, Angustias, unleashes a series of events which culminate in a tragic denouement.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities and Sciences
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Set in rural Spain at the turn of this century, the scene is a cloistered household managed by a newly widowed mother of five daughters. Under the shadow of the church and the tyranny bred from a need to protect the reputation of the family, the matron (Bernarda Alba) represses her daughters by enforcing an eight year mourning period. The tensions build rapidly among the imprisoned women, with a demented grandmother playing a role resembling that...
40) Bodas de sangre
Author
Language
Español
Description
An annotated and criticial version of the play.
"El tema de esta obra surgió a raíz de una noticia aparecida en prensa: dos amantes se fugan en la víspera de la boda de la mujer con otro hombre. García Lorca convierte la realidad en poesía. En su obra hay ansias de libertad, andalucismo, simbolismo y muerte, pero por encima de todo, poesía dramática. 'Bodas de sangre' es, pues, una obra teatral donde las desgarradas pasiones de sus protagonistas...