Research Catalog

Title

Three plays : Blood wedding, Yerma, The house of Bernarda Alba / Federico García Lorca ; the new authorized English translations by Michael Dewell and Carmen Zapata ; introduction by Christopher Maurer.

Author

García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936

Publication

New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dewell, Michael
• Zapata, Carmen

Description

xxv, 303 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

In these three plays, Garcí a 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 Garcí a Lorca."

Uniform Title

Plays. Selections. English

Alternative Title

• Plays.
• Blood wedding, Yerma, The house of Bernarda Alba

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Spanish drama > 20th century > Translations into English

Genre/Form

• Drama
• Translations

Note

• Translation from Spanish.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-292).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Blood wedding -- Yerma -- The house of Bernarda Alba.

ISBN

0374523320

LCCN

^^^91044203^

OCLC

• 25026390
• SCSB-12807377

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library