Four major plays
著者
書誌事項
Four major plays
（Oxford world's classics）
Oxford University Press, 1999
- : pbk
大学図書館所蔵 全5件
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxviii]-xxxix)
収録内容
- Blood wedding
- Yerma
- The house of Bernarda Alba
- Doña Rosita the spinster
内容説明・目次
内容説明
`I have made a terrible discovery ... I have not yet been born ... I live off borrowed substance; what I have within me is not mine.'
In his four last plays Federico Garcia Lorca offered his disturbed and disturbing personal vision to Spanish audiences of the 1930s - unready, as he thought them, for the sexual frankness and surreal expression of his more experimental work. The ill-fated lovers of Blood Wedding, the desolate Yerma, the fading spinster Rosita, and Bernarda Alba's abused household of women all inhabit a familiar Andalusia. Their predicaments are starkly plotted, with a stagecraft rooted in
classical theatrical tradition. In such figures Lorca addresses the cultural and political ferment of his time with a fiercely libertarian assault on 'old and wrong moralities', fusing the personal and the political through his virtuoso mastery of images.
Yet all that mastery can barely keep at bay the anguished contradictions of these doomed human lives. Hence the authentic sense of danger - the duende, to use his own word of Lorca's theatre, finely conveyed here in John Edmunds's fluent and rhythmic new translations that lend themselves admirably to performance.
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目次
- Blood Wedding
- Yerma
- The House of Bernada
- Dona Rosita the Spinster
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