Research Catalog

Title

Yerma / Federico Garcia Lorca ; translated, with commentary and notes by Gwynne Edwards.

Author

García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936

Publication

London : Methuen Drama, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Edwards, Gwynne

Description

lxix, 137 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

"Lorca completed his great 'rural trilogy' - three separate plays deeply rooted in Spanish country life and tradition - shortly before he was murdered by Nationalist sympathisers in 1936. Yerma, the second, was premiered in 1934, to great acclaim, despite an attempt to disrupt the performance. 'A tragic poem', passionate and lyrical, it explores universal themes of fertility and infertility in an intense, stylised and innovative drama." "This edition contains parallel English and Spanish texts, in addition to the commentary and notes."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Methuen drama student editions

Uniform Title

• Yerma. English & Spanish
• Methuen drama student editions

Alternative Title

Yerma.

Subject

• Women peasants > Social conditions > Drama
• Childlessness > Drama
• Mariticide > Drama

Genre/Form

• Drama
• Théâtre.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical records (p. [lxv]-lxix).

Language (note)

• Parallel English and Spanish texts.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Lorca and the theater of his time
• The real-life sources of Yerma
• The broader meaning : symbolism and imagery
• The play as tragedy
• Staging of Lorca's plays in his lifetime
• Production history of Yerma

ISBN

• 0713683260 (pbk.)
• 9780713683264 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 74523549
• SCSB-12255939

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library