Three Plays, by Federico Garcia Lorca (Used)

A NEW TRANSLATION BY MICHAEL DEWELL AND CARMEN APATA, EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER MAURER

Lorca's emotional depth, imaginative scope and technical power make him not only one of modern Spain's greatest writers but also one of the few supreme creative artists of this century?

In his drive to reconcile drama and poetry, music and dance in the theatre, and in his pursuit of the tragic essence of things, Lorca (1898-1936) was the revolutionary genius of Spanish theatre.

Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba all portray women whose desires are tragically frustrated. They embody appeals for freedom, justice, and sexual and social equality; and, beyond these, they contain what Christopher Maurer calls 'a passionate defence of poetry and of the imagination. His characters' search for meaning parallels that of the reader. The result is dramatic poetry or poetic drama unsurpassed by any writer of our time.'

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