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Blood Wedding (Paperback, New edition)
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Blood Wedding (Paperback, New edition)
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List price R215
Loot Price R176
Discovery Miles 1 760
You Save R39 (18%)
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Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca is a classic of Spanish
literature, the tragedy of a woman loved by two men. The man she
has loved since childhood is hot-blooded Leonardo, but his family
are hated by her own folk, and he marries someone else. Then, on
her wedding-night, Leonardo carries her off on horseback, pursued
by the men of the two shamed families. The two rivals meet in the
moonlight in a fight to the death... Lorca said the only hope for
happiness lies in 'living one's instinctual life to the full'. And:
'To burn with desire and to remain silent is the greatest
punishment we can inflict on ourselves.' Blood Wedding explores the
tragic intensity of lived, instinctual passion. For Brendan
Kennelly, this involves a return to the very origins of drama: 'The
pure pulsing sense of the mysterious nature of life before we learn
to explain things almost out of existence ... Blood Wedding is a
drama of agonised and bewildering revelation.' Lorca has a searing
realisation of the power of desire. Brendan Kennelly rises to the
challenge of how to convey this in an English translation. In
language at once soaring and accurate, wild and precise, he does
justice to Lorca's tragic vision of the nature and consequences of
lived desire. His version of Blood Wedding reveals the mysterious,
intricate, passionate and truly astonishing nature of Lorca's
masterpiece. Brendan Kennelly's versions of Euripides' The Trojan
Women and Medea, and Sophocles' Antigone, are published by Bloodaxe
Books in his drama trilogy When Then Is Now: Three Greek Tragedies
(2006). His version of Lorca's Blood Wedding was premiered by
Northern Stage in Newcastle and Derby in autumn 1996. His Antigone
and The Trojan Women were both first performed at the Peacock
Theatre, Dublin, in 1986 and 1993 respectively; Medea premiered in
the Dublin Theatre Festival in 1988, toured in England in 1989 and
was broadcast by BBC Radio 3.
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