In The House of Bernarda Alba, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here also portray female characters whose desires are tragically and violently frustrated: a woman’s longing for a child in Yerma, and a bride’s yearning for her lover in Blood Wedding. All appeal for freedom and sexual and social equality, and are also passionate defences of the imagination: in Christopher Maurer’s words, ‘poetic drama unsurpassed by any writer of our time’.
ISBN: | 9780141185750 |
Publication date: | 26th April 2001 |
Author: | Federico García Lorca, Christopher Maurer |
Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 208 pages |
Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
Genres: |
Modern and contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards) |