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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Dewell, Michael.

Zapata, Carmen.

Standardized Title:

Plays. Selections. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxv, 303 pages : illustrations, music ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Blood wedding.

Yerma.

House of Bernarda Alba.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993.

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."

Notes:

Translation from the Spanish.

ISBN:

0374523320

OCLC:

25026390