Lorca: The House of Bernarda Alba: A Drama of Women in the Villages of Spain

Author:   Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres ,  Eric Southworth ,  Michael Jones ,  Michael Jones
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
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9780856687891


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   02 April 2009
Format:   Paperback
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Lorca: The House of Bernarda Alba: A Drama of Women in the Villages of Spain


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La casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba) was one of the last plays to be written by Lorca, shortly before he was executed by the Franco regime at the age of 38, in 1936. It was not performed until 1945 several years after his death. Along with Blood Wedding and Yerma it forms Lorca's Rural Trilogy. The play is based around five daughters who live with their fearsome and tyrannical mother. The daughters have been kept sheltered from the opposite sex, but the arrival of a suitor after their father's death catapults the family into a downward spiral of sexual jealousy and death. The play explores themes of sexual oppression, passion, and conformity, and examines women's lives in Spain at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Bernarda's cruel tyranny over her daughters foreshadows the stifling nature of Franco's fascist regime, which was to arrive just a few weeks after Lorca finished writing his play. The introduction by Eric Southworth addresses the main issues of the play and the issues involved in translating it.

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Author:   Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres ,  Eric Southworth ,  Michael Jones ,  Michael Jones
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Aris & Phillips Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 14.90cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.181kg
ISBN:  

9780856687891


ISBN 10:   0856687898
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   02 April 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.
Language:   Spanish, Spanish

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edited and translated by Michael Jones and Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres

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