The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays

Informationen zum Autor Poet, playwright, musician and artist, close friend of the great Surrealists Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró and Luis Buñuel, Federico García Lorca was one of the most distinctive and beloved writers of modern times. His writing has inspired generations of writers and artists, from Pablo Neruda to Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith. Born in Andalusia, Spain, in 1898, Lorca studied in Madrid as a young man and soon became prominent in artistic circles; in 1928 his book of Gypsy Ballads catapulted him to literary stardom. He escaped to New York for a year in 1929, where he found he was able to focus on his poetry and immerse himself in the thriving gay culture of Harlem; upon returning to republican Spain he became increasingly politicized, devoting himself to radical works of theatre that rebelled against the bourgeois status quo. Just after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, he was murdered at Granada by Nationalist partisans. He was thirty-eight years old. Klappentext Includes the plays "The House of Bernarda Alba", "Yerma", and "Blood Wedding". These plays appeal for freedom and sexual and social equality. Zusammenfassung Includes the plays "The House of Bernarda Alba", "Yerma", and "Blood Wedding". These plays appeal for freedom and sexual and social equality.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Dewell, Federico Garc-A Lorca, Federico Garcia Lorca, Federico Garcia Lorca, Federico García Lorca, Christopher Maurer, Carmen Zapata
• Assisted by: Christopher Maurer (Introduction), Maurer Christopher (Introduction), Michael Dewell (Translation), Dewell Michael (Translation), Carmen Zapata (Translation), Zapata Carmen (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.2001
• EAN: 9780141185750
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118575-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 195 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Spain, DRAMA / General, Plays, playscripts, drama