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Five plays : comedies and tragicomedies
- Title
- Five plays : comedies and tragicomedies / by Federico García Lorca ; translated by James Graham-Lujan and Richard L. O'Connell.
- Author
- García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936
- Publication
- Norfolk, Conn. : New Directions, [1963]
- ©1963
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- Description
- vi, 246 pages : music; 21 cm
- Summary
- Garcia Lorca's position as one of the few geniuses of the modern theatre was firmly established in the English-speaking world with his Three tragedies. Here, with an introduction by the dramatist's brother, Francisco Garcia Lorca, are five of his "comedies," in the authorized translations, extensively revised to reflect recent Lorca scholarship and to convey the sparkle, freshness, and magic of the original Spanish. "The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife" tells of a young beauty married to an old man, a theme that often concerned Lorca. The resolution for the earnest shoemaker, who leaves home and comes back disguised as a puppeteer, is lighthearted, but there is underlying pathos. "The Love of Don Perlimplin" is again about a girl who weds someone much older, this time a bookish, 18th-century gentleman, who seeks an original but sardonic way out of the situation. "Dona Rosita" is the outer gentleness and inner scorching of a girl in Granada who, little by little, turns into that grotesque and moving thing - an old maid in Spain. The author in an interview. The two other comedies, published here in book form in English for the first time, are "The Billy-Club Puppet"--A guignol-type farce with delicate with; and "The Butterfly's Evil Spell," an "insect comedy" about a beetle-poet who aspires to be a butterfly.
- Uniform Title
- Plays. Selections. English
- Alternative Title
- Plays.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Tragicomedy.
- comedy (general genre)
- Drama
- Tragicomedies
- Comedy plays
- Translations
- Comedies.
- Tragicomedies.
- Comedy plays.
- Drama.
- Spanish drama
- Tragicomédies.
- Théâtre.
- Comédies.
- Note
- Melodies used in the plays, with words: p. [237]-246.
- Contents
- The billy-club puppets -- The shoemaker's prodigious wife -- The love of Don Perlimplin and Belisa in the garden -- Doña Rosita, the spinster -- The butterfly's evil spell.
- ISBN
- 9780811200905
- 0811200906
- LCCN
- 63013642
- OCLC
- ocm00346561
- 346561
- SCSB-14720006
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library