The House Of Bernarda Alba And Other Plays

Author: Federico Garcia Lorca

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  • : 35.00 NZD
  • : 9780141185750
  • : Penguin Books
  • : Penguin Books
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  • : 0.159
  • : March 2001
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 12mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 26.0
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  • : Federico Garcia Lorca
  • : Penguin Classics
  • : Paperback
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  • : 862.62
  • : very good
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  • : 208
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Barcode 9780141185750
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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'.

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