Blood Wedding and Yerma
Playwrights Canada Press · Paperback · May 1, 1994
One of Spain's greatest poets and dramatists, Federico Garcia Lorca wrote in many styles but achieved maturity and fame with his peasant plays, Blood Wedding and Yerma, in which impassioned language and imagery accentuate tragic narratives.
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- Who it’s for
- Two stark dramas meet the rhythmic force and imagery of poets Langston Hughes and W.S. Merwin.
- Themes
- Tragic narratives, Thwarted longing for a child, Elopement on a wedding night
- Genres
- Spanish & Portuguese Plays, Spanish & Portuguese Literary Collections, Hispanic American Poetry
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One of Spain's greatest poets and dramatists, Federico Garcia Lorca wrote in many styles but achieved maturity and fame with his peasant plays, Blood Wedding and Yerma, in which impassioned language and imagery accentuate tragic narratives. These never-before published translations unite Garcia Lorca's masterpieces with two of America's most gifted poets, Langston Hughes and W.S. Merwin.
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The epigrammatic style and unsentimental lyricism of W.S. Merwin heighten the urgency and fervor of Yerma, the story of a woman whose thwarted yearning for a child makes her murder her indifferent husband. Preeminent African-American poet Langston Hughes infuses his version of Blood Wedding--the story of an unwilling bride who elopes with her lover on her wedding night--with the rhythmic intensity and linguistic beauty only a fellow poet could achieve.
Lyric Tragedy
Two stark dramas meet the rhythmic force and imagery of poets Langston Hughes and W.S. Merwin.
Come here for
- Impassioned language sharpened by poetic translation
- A meeting of Spanish drama and two distinct poetic voices
Expect
- Tragic narratives told with urgency and fervor
- The contrasting styles of Hughes and Merwin
Where it sits
| Spanish & Portuguese Plays | 93% |
|---|---|
| Spanish & Portuguese Literary Collections | 34% |
| Hispanic American Poetry | 26% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Plays
- Caribbean & Latin American Criticism
- Authors
- Federico Garcia Lorca
- Publisher
- Playwrights Canada Press
- Published
- May 1, 1994
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Tragic narratives · Thwarted longing for a child · Elopement on a wedding night
- Reading lane
- Plays