Three Plays: Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba

Author: Federico García Lorca

In these three plays, Federico 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….Read More

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