The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays
Author(s): Federico Garcia Lorca
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'.
Product Information
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General Fields
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- : Penguin Books
- : Penguin Books
- : 0.159
- : March 2001
- : 198mm X 129mm X 12mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Federico Garcia Lorca
- : Paperback
- : 862.62
- : very good
- : 208
- : Michael Dewell; Carmen Zapata