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Lorca: The House of Bernarda Alba: A Drama of Women in the Villages of Spain (Spanish, Paperback, New)
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Lorca: The House of Bernarda Alba: A Drama of Women in the Villages of Spain (Spanish, Paperback, New)
Series: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics
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La casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba) was one of
the last plays to be written by Lorca, shortly before he was
executed by the Franco regime at the age of 38, in 1936. It was not
performed until 1945 several years after his death. Along with
Blood Wedding and Yerma it forms Lorca's Rural Trilogy. The play is
based around five daughters who live with their fearsome and
tyrannical mother. The daughters have been kept sheltered from the
opposite sex, but the arrival of a suitor after their father's
death catapults the family into a downward spiral of sexual
jealousy and death. The play explores themes of sexual oppression,
passion, and conformity, and examines women's lives in Spain at the
end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Bernarda's cruel
tyranny over her daughters foreshadows the stifling nature of
Franco's fascist regime, which was to arrive just a few weeks after
Lorca finished writing his play. The introduction by Jonathan
Thacker addresses the main issues of the play and the issues
involved in translating it.
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