Three Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alba - Federico García Lorca

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.

Published: 1977-07-07 (Praeger)

ISBN: 9780837195780

Language: English

Format: Hardcover, 212 pages

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Cultural European Literature Drama Classics Fiction Spain Spanish Literature Plays

Reviews

Lynette rated it

Love the drama of it all (no pun intended), full of feminine energy

Dionysus rated it

Say what you want about these three plays by Lorca but for me they're the work of a true original... and each so distinct. There's something so expansive about "Blood Wedding" and something so masochistic about "Yerma" -- which seems so clearly about a gay man and his wife to me now. But my favorite of the three is "The House of Bernarda Alba," for which I was impatiently flipping the pages while asking "What's next? What's next? What's next?"

Dionysus rated it

Dark but beautiful. They are very sad, but so poetically written and presented. These translations preserve the intensity and beauty of the stories, and also give it a new life in English. I love the inclusion of some of the music in the appendix.