The house of Bernarda Alba
By: Federici Garcia Lorca ; in a new English version by David Hare
Contributors: García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936
Publisher: Faber
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 75
Description: Finished just two months before the author's murder on 18 August 1936 by a gang of Franco's supporters, 'The House of Bernarda Alba' is now accepted as Lorca's great masterpiece of love and loathing. Five daughters live together in a single household with a tyrannical mother. When the father of all but the eldest girl dies, a cynical marriage is advanced which will have tragic consequences for the whole family.