num_pages: 148
description: Bodas de sangre is arguably the best-known work by the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers. A passionate story of family feud and tragic elopement is played out in the setting of a poor country village, building up to a dramatic ending full of the intensely poetic symbolism characteristic of Lorca.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: Bodas de sangre
titlecomplete: Bodas de sangre
characters: La Criada, La Madre, Leonardo, La Mujer de Leonardo, La Luna, La Novia, La Suegra, La Muerte (como Mendiga)
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Poetry, Spanish Literature, Drama, School, Romance, Classics, Spain
ratings_count: 24043
publisher: Manchester University Press