num_pages: 72
description: Lorca's Blood Wedding is a classic of twentieth-century theatre. The story is based on a newspaper fragment which told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with the son of the enemy family. Lorca uses it to investigate the subjects which fascinated desire, repression, ritual, and the constraints and commitments of the rural Spanish community in which the play is rooted. Ted Hughes's version stays close in spirit and letter to the original Spanish. With marvellous directness, he fuses Lorca's vision to his own, and the result is a powerful poetic text which captures all the violence and pathos of the play for an English-speaking audience.
language: English
title: Blood Wedding
titlecomplete: Blood Wedding
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: 24052
publisher: Faber and Faber