Talk:The House of Bernarda Alba

message: The symbols section is out of control. It's way too big, and not very relevant anyway.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.71.240.108 (talk) 19:55, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Symbols

message: Why should it be known by its English children's title?  I see no reason for having the page name in English but then highlighting the Spanish name in the article. Kakashi-sensei 19:29, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: Bernarda does NOT mean bear, The play was written originally in Spanish, and the Spanish word for bear is "oso" which sounds nothing like Bernarda.  Instead, her last name "Alba" means dawn -- ironic?
Adela doesn't mean to overtake either. That's just ignorant. It's the same name as Adele. Baby names websites say it's Old German for Queen or Noble Woman. The root is not Spanish, anyway.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.109.5.221 (talk) 09:56, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inaccuracy 

message: Wasn't it based on some real news report? --Error 22:32, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Real story

message: I don't remember well.
Isn't one of the sisters from another mother or another father?
--Error 22:42, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Different father

message: Magdalena uses the word "negro" in the play.
Does anybody know if it is like in english (a racist word) or it means only black (like the color)?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.178.220.56 (talk) 20:56, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Racism

message: It,s the fourth or fifth time I find that Lorca wrote a trilogy of rural plays and that,s not true. La casa de Bernarda Alba it,s an independant play. Bodas de Sangre and Yerma are part of a not-finished "trilogy of Spanish earth", wich third play "La destruccion de Sodoma" (The fell of Sodoma) was not written because of Lorca,s death. I,d like someone to correct this. Paitxa  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.2.255.244 (talk) 11:52, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: NOT TRILOGY

message: why isn't pepe el romano in the characters? i know he never actually says anything, but he is a HUGE factor in the other characters' actions and decisions!!! 
He doesn't feature at all in the characters as he never appears in the play. One of the features of the play is that although many men are mentioned in the play, none actually appear on stage; this was intentional by Lorca.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.223.204.117 (talk) 23:33, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  PEPE EL ROMANO! 

message: The bolded statement in the middle of the plot summary seems out of place to me.  The idea might be valid, but it seems like an opinion and should at least be integrated into the article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.9.121.145 (talk) 19:04, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poncia? 

message: Is there reliable evidence that García Lorca researched the etymologies of the names he gave his characters? Or did he just pick names which suited the personalities and fitted the place and time?
Take Pepe for example. Instead of the village wide boy, one of thousands of Pepes browsing on female flesh where they can, are we meant to see him as his namesake Joseph, the elderly, scrupulous, devout and unfruitful husband of the Virgin Mary? Or are we meant to go further back to the first Joseph, Rachel’s son, whose name in Hebrew meant “added”? Just as God added Joseph to Rachel’s family, will divine decree add Pepe to Bernarda’s family? 
While in some cases the etymologies may add a slight resonance, and the names Angustias and Martirio are particularly poignant for two of the frustrated spinsters, aren’t all the names perfectly normal ones for Spanish people of the period? If so, are the etymologies any serious help to understanding the play? Do we need them in the article?
--Hors-la-loi (talk) 11:00, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The names are indeed perfectly common Spanish names even today. Unless there is some secundary literature which points out a possible intention by the poet to choose these names over others, I would suggest eliminating the whole block, for being theory-finding. And besides, it's not true that the name Adela comes "from the Spanish verb "adelantar" meaning "to go forward" or "to overtake". It might sound a little bit like that, and possibly Lorca even had this in mind, but that's speculation. The name is not related to this Spanish verb. Ilyacadiz (talk) 23:39, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymologies?