Three Plays
Blood Wedding; Yerma; The House of Bernarda Alba
ISBN10: 0374523320
ISBN13: 9780374523329
Trade Paperback
336 Pages
$20.00
CA$26.99
In these three plays, 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. 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 result, both performable and readable, has been thoroughly revised for this edition, which is introduced by Christopher Maurer, general editor of the Complete Poetical Works of García Lorca.
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"Nimble and wise . . . a fresh, flowering translation."—Robert Kohler, Los Angeles Times