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Lorca Plays: 3 Federico Garcia Lorca

Lorca Plays: 3 By Federico Garcia Lorca

Lorca Plays: 3 by Federico Garcia Lorca


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Summary

This collection includes two of Lorca's most notorious late works, "The Public", his only openly homosexual drama and "Play without a Title", set in the world of the theatre, as well as the historical folk play "Mariana Pineda".

Lorca Plays: 3 Summary

Lorca Plays: 3: The Public; Play without a Title; Mariana Pineda by Federico Garcia Lorca

"Lorca is one of the few indisputably great dramatists of the twentieth century" Observer Mariana Pineda achieved immediate critical success on its first performance in Barcelona in 1927. The Public is a powerful and uncompromising demand for sexual, and specifically homosexual, freedom - as predicted it was never performed in Lorca's time - it was first performed in this country by Theatre Royal Stratford East in the 80s. Play Without a Title, an unfinished Lorca rarity, realises his wish 'to do something different, including modern plays on the age we live in'.

About Federico Garcia Lorca

Federico Garcia Lorca was born in 1898, in Andalusia, Spain. A poet and dramatist, and also a gifted painter and pianist, his early popular ballads earned him the title of 'poet of the gypsies'. In 1930 he turned his attention to theatre, visiting remote villages and playing classic and new works for peasant audiences. In 1936, shortly after the outbreak of Civil War, he was murdered by Nationalist partisans. His body was never found. Gwynne Edwards is a specialist in Spanish theatre and cinema, until recently Professor of Spanish at the University of Aberystwyth. His books include: Lorca: The Theatre Beneath the Sand; Lorca: Living in the Theatre; Dramatists in Perspective: Spanish Theatre in the Twentieth Century; The Discreet Art of Luis Bunuel: and Almodovar: Labyrinths of Passion. He has also translated and adapted more than forty plays from Spanish, French and Italian, many of which have been staged at major theatres in Britain and the United States. He has published three collections of Lorca plays with Methuen Drama, together with student editions of Blood Wedding and The House of Bernarda Alba, and also collections of seventeenth-century Spanish and contemporary Spanish-American plays adapted from the correspondence and prose writings of Dylan Thomas.

Table of Contents

The Public; Play without a Title; Mariana Pineda

Additional information

GOR006137405
9780413652409
0413652408
Lorca Plays: 3: The Public; Play without a Title; Mariana Pineda by Federico Garcia Lorca
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
1994-12-05
208
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