Three Plays
Blood Wedding; Yerma; the House of Bernarda Alba
Farrar Straus & Giroux · Print & ebook · September 1, 1993
Newly repackaged, three plays by Federico García Lorca In these three plays, Federico García Lorca's acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded his audience that dramatic poetry—or poetic drama—depends less on formal convention that on an elemental, radical outlook on human life.
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- Who it’s for
- These stage-ready versions pair dramatic poetry with an elemental, radical view of human life.
- Themes
- Contemporary tragedy, Poetic drama, An elemental outlook on human life
- Genres
- Spanish & Portuguese Plays
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Newly repackaged, three plays by Federico García Lorca In these three plays, Federico García Lorca's acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded his audience that dramatic poetry—or poetic drama—depends less on formal convention that on an elemental, radical outlook on human life. His images are beautiful and exact, but until now no translator had ever been able to make his characters speak unaffectedly on the American stage.
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Michael Dewell of the National Repertory Theatre and Carmen Zapata of the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts have created these versions expressly for the stage. The results, both performable and readable, have been thoroughly revised for this edition, which has an introduction by Christopher Maurer, the general editor of the Complete Poetical Works of García Lorca.
Poetry on Stage
These stage-ready versions pair dramatic poetry with an elemental, radical view of human life.
Come here for
- Poetic drama shaped for the American stage
- Three plays by Federico García Lorca
Expect
- Versions revised for both performance and reading
- Beautiful, exact images and unaffected speech
Where it sits
| Spanish & Portuguese Plays | 92% |
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Publisher categories
- Spanish & Portuguese Plays
- Authors
- Federico García Lorca
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Published
- September 1, 1993
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Contemporary tragedy · Poetic drama · An elemental outlook on human life
- Reading lane
- Spanish & Portuguese Plays