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Federico Garcia
Lorca
Biography:
Born 1889 in Fuente Vaqueros, Spain. Lorca started out law studying law but was drawn to
writing poetry and plays. He was assassinated in the Spanish Civil War at
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4 Puppet
Plays: Play Without a Title, The Divan Poems, Other Poems, Prose
Poems and Dramatic Pieces
"This is not the first time that I, the drunken puppet who marries
Dona Rosita, leaves the hand of Federico Garcia Lorca on the stage, where
I live and never die. The first time was in the house of this poet -
remember that, Federico? It was spring in Granada, and the drawing room of
your house was full of children who were saying: 'The puppets are flesh
and bone, so how come they remain children and never grow up?' The famous
Manuel de Falla was at the piano and there performed for the first time in
Spain Stravinsky's Histoire d'un soldate." (from Lorca's prologue)
Collected
for the first time in a single volume, Federico Garcia Lorca's Four
Puppet Plays, Divan Poems, Other Poems, Prose Poems
and Dramatic Pieces, and the previously unpublished Play Without
a Title witness an aspect of the poet's genius not found in the larger
body of his work: a manifest and onstage licentiousness that owes as much
to the fairy tales and quasi-mythos of the Gypsy and Andalucian traditions
as to the poetics of Lope de Vega and Calderon.
"Lorca's puppet plays are lyrical and
mocking. . . . They show Lorca at his most lighthearted and charming, but
also at his most discreetly experimental, able to get delicate emotions
out of the mockery of emotion." (Michael Wood, The New York Review
of Books)
Paperback - 155 pages (June 1990) $12.95
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Barbarous Nights:
Legends and Plays from the Little Theater
Paperback - 79 pages
(July 1991) $9.95
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Blood Wedding
Ted Hughes translates and adapts Lorca's 20th-century classic for an
English-speaking audience. The story is based on a newspaper fragment
which told of a family vendetta, where the daughter of one family ran away
with the son of the enemy family. Hughes's captivating version premiered
at the Young Vic Theatre, London, in September 1996.
Paperback - 96 pages (March 1997) $8.76
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Blood Wedding and Yerma
Paperback - 135 pages (August 1994) $10.36
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Five Plays:
Comedies and Tragicomedies
Paperback (December 1964)
$7.96
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The Public and Play Without a Title:
Two Posthumous Plays
Hardcover - 71 pages
(November 1983) $12.50
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Three Plays:
Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba
Paperback (August 1993)
$12.80
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Three Tragedies
Paperback (June 1955)
$8.76
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Yerma
The second of Lorca's great trilogy of rural dramas, Yerma is a
concentrated blend of contrasting moods through which Lorca charts the
increasingly destructive obsession of a childless young country wife, and
probes the darker zones of human fears and desires. The play's rich mode
of expression - a powerful combination of verbal, visual and auditory
images and rhythms - is also geared to celebrating sexual attraction and
fertility, creation and procreation. Through his characterization of the
play's central figure, Lorca raises the question of women's social status
- a controversial question both then and now, and one to which Robin
Warner pays particular attention in his critical introduction to the play.
He also examines the links between the dramatic structure of Yerma and the
importance of cultural politics during the turbulent course of the Second
Spanish Republic. The Spanish text is supported by an introduction and
notes in English, as well as by an extensive vocabulary and section of
discussion questions.
Paperback (January 1997) $11.96
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Five Plays
Hardcover - 246 pages
(July 1977) $35.00
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Two Plays of Misalliance:
The Love of Don Perlimplin and The Prodigious Cobblers Wife
Paperback (September 1996)
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