Three plays
Subtitle: Blood wedding, Yerma, The house of Bernarda Alba
By: Federico García Lorca ; the new authorized English translations by Michael Dewell and Carmen Zapata ; introduction by Christopher Maurer.
Contributors: Dewell, Michael.; Zapata, Carmen.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Other titles: Blood wedding, Yerma, The house of Bernarda Alba
Description: In these three plays, Garcí a Lorca's acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded his audience that dramatic poetry-or poetic drama-depends less on formal convention that on an elemental, radical outlook on human life. His images are beautiful and exact, but until now no translator had ever been able to make his characters speak unaffectedly on the American stage. Michael Dewell of the National Repertory Theatre and Carmen Zapata of the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts have created these versions expressly for the stage. The result, both performable and readable, has been thoroughly revised for this edition, which is introduced by Christopher Maurer, general editor of the "Complete Poetical Works of Garcí a Lorca."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-292).
Translation from Spanish.