Five plays : comedies and tragi-comedies

Author(s)

• García Lorca, Federico
• Graham-Luján, James
• O'Connell, Richard L

Bibliographic Information

Five plays : comedies and tragi-comedies

Federico García Lorca ; translated by James Graham-Lujan and Richard L. O'Connell

（Penguin twentieth-century classics）

Penguin, 1970, c1963

Contents of Works

• The Billy-club puppets
• The shoemaker's prodigious wife
• The love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the garden
• Doña Rosita, the spinster
• The butterfly's evil spell

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Tragedy and farce within the same play are illustrated in this collection of five comedies and tragi-comedies depicting the folk culture of Spain. Lorca incorporates fantasy with reality, twisting plots to undermine the predictabliity of folk stories.

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Details

• NCID: BA31532085
• ISBN:
  • 0140181253
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: spa
• Place of Publication: Harmondsworth
• Pages/Volumes: 237 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • DC : 862/.6/2
  • LCC : PQ6613.A763
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA07487461