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Yerma (Paperback)
Federico Garcia Lorca; Adapted by Simon Stone
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"Well we've got three floors right. Plenty of room... Room for a
children's bedroom. Room for two." London, the present day. A woman
is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a
child. Written and directed by Simon Stone, this radical new
version of Lorca's tragedy of yearning and loss won universal
critical acclaim when it premiered at the Young Vic in July 2016.
Yerma triumphed at the 2017 Olivier Awards, with the production
winning Best Revival, and Piper winning Best Actress. She also won
the Evening Standard Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress.
Maureen Beattie, Brendan Cowell, John MacMillan and Charlotte
Randle received unanimous praise for their performances.
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Yerma (Paperback)
Gwynne Edwards; Federico Garcia Lorca; Introduction by Gwynne Edwards; Translated by Gwynne Edwards
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Yerma (meaning 'Barren') is one of three tragic plays about
peasants and rural life that make up Lorca's 'rural trilogy'. It is
possibly Lorca's harshest play following a woman's Herculean
struggle against the curse of infertility. The woman's barrenness
becomes a metaphor for her marriage in a traditional society that
denies women sexual or social equality. Her desperate desire for a
child drives her to commit a terrible crime at the end of the play.
This Student Edition comes complete with a full introduction; plot
synopsis; commentary on characters, context and themes;
bibliography; chronology, and questions for study.
Bernarda Alba is a widow, and her five daughters are incarcerated
in mourning along with her. One by one they make a bid for freedom,
with tragic consequences. Lorca's tale depicts the repression of
women within Catholic Spain in the years before the war. The House
of Bernarda Alba is Lorca's last and possibly finest play,
completed shortly before he was murdered by Nationalist
sympathisers at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Inspired by
real characters and described by the author as 'a true record of
village life', it is a tragic tale of frustration and explosive
passions in a household of women rulled by a tyrannical mother.
Edited with invaluable student notes - a must for students of
Spanish drama
In these three plays, García Lorca's acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded his audience that dramatic poetry—or poetic drama—depends less on formal convention that on an elemental, radical outlook on human life. His images are beautiful and exact, but until now no translator had ever been able to make his characters speak unaffectedly on the American stage. Michael Dewell of the National Repertory Theatre and Carmen Zapata of the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts have created these versions expressly for the stage. The result, both performable and readable, has been thoroughly revised for this edition, which is introduced by Christopher Maurer, general editor of the Complete Poetical Works of García Lorca.
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936), wrote The Tamarit Divan and the
Sonnets of Dark Love in the last years of his life. Both books were
published posthumously and explore passionate love. The setting for
The Divan is the poet's Granada, while the Sonnets are a solitary,
intimate voice speaking to one person. In translating these
powerful poems, Jane Duran and Gloria Garcia Lorca have tried to
remain as close as possible to Lorca's words and to his emotional
and sensuous intensity.This bilingual edition also includes essays
by two acclaimed Lorca scholars. Christopher Maurer's essay,
'Violet Shadow', explores Lorca's relationship with Arabic poetry
in the Divan. Andres Soria Olmedo's essay, 'Dark St Valentine',
studies the implications and resonances of 'dark love' in the
Sonnets.
A. L. Lloyd was nothing if not versatile, ethnomusicologist,
journalist, radio and television broadcaster, and translator. It is
as the author of Folk Song in England, also reissued in Faber
Finds, that he is best known, but, in this his centenary year
(2008) Faber Finds is also celebrating him as a translator. 1937
was A. L. Lloyd's annus mirabilis as a translator. In it he
published both his translations of Lorca - Lament for the Death of
a Bullfighter - and Kafka's Metamorphosis. There aren't many who
can translate with equal facility from Spanish and German. Not only
did A. L. Lloyd do that, his translations were both firsts, the
first translation of Lorca into English and the first English
translation of Kafka's most famous story. On first publication A.
L. Lloyd's Lorca translation was widely praised with V. S.
Pritchett especially commending it in The New Statesman.
"This excellent edition is most welcome. A select bibliography, a
brief vocabulary, several footnotes to explain points of
difficulty, fourteen long endnotes... and even the music of the
songs, make the edition an extremely valuable and interesting
volume, offering the reader the text of the play itself and
important new insights into its structure, its significance and
indeed its success." Professor Leo Hickey, 'Modern Languages' Bodas
de sangre is arguably the best-known work by the most celebrated of
all twentieth-century Spanish writers. A passionate story of family
feud and tragic elopement is played out in the setting of a poor
country village, building up to a dramatic ending full of the
intensely poetic symbolism characteristic of Lorca. -- .
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Blood Wedding (Paperback, Main)
Federico Garcia Lorca; Translated by Marina Carr
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A bride promised. A blood vow broken. The vengeance of a village
released. I want you green. Green wind, green branches. Boat on the
ocean. Horse on the mountain. Written in the summer of 1932 with
the Spanish civil war looming, Lorca's anarchic meditation on the
fate of the individual versus society is a prophetic foreshadowing
of the violence that would soon tear his beloved country apart and
lead to his own tragic end. The mysteries of love and hate are
explored against the backdrop of a community gearing up to unleash
these elemental forces upon itself, with unstoppable consequences.
What is done cannot be undone. Marina Carr's version of Federico
Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding premiered at the Young Vic, London, in
September 2019.
Three of Federico Garcia Lorca's most famous plays in a single
volume, translated from the Spanish and introduced by one of
Scotland's finest playwrights, Jo Clifford. 'There's fire burning
in my head. There's an ocean drowning my heart.' Lorca's
passionate, lyrical tales of longing and revenge put the spotlight
on the rural poor of 1930s Spain and are considered masterpieces of
twentieth-century theatre. These plays exhibit Lorca's intense
anger at the injustices of society, and his determination to create
art that might remedy it. The collection contains Blood Wedding,
Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba, in sensitive and playable
translations, and a full introduction to Lorca, his times and his
work. The Nick Hern Books Drama Classic Collections series brings
together the most popular plays from a single author or a
particular period. They offer students, actors and theatregoers a
series of uncluttered, accessible editions, accompanied by
comprehensive introductions. Where the originals are in English,
there is a glossary of unfamiliar words and phrases. Where the
originals are in a foreign language, the translations aim to be
both actable and accurate - and are made by translators whose work
is regularly staged in the professional theatre.
Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price
Garcia Lorca's passionate, lyrical tale of longing and revenge: a
twentieth century masterpiece. Translated from the Spanish and
introduced by one of Scotland's finest playwrights, Jo Clifford.
This selection has been the introduction for generations of
American readers to the mesmerizing poems of Federico Garcia Lorca
(1898-1937). Lorca is admired the world over for the lyricism,
immediacy and clarity of his poetry, as well as for his ability to
encompass techniques of the symbolist movement with deeper
psychological shadings. Most of all, Lorca's poems are admired for
their beauty. Undercurrents of his major influences -- Spanish folk
traditions of his native Andalusia and Granada, gypsy ballads, and
surrealists Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel -- stream throughout
Lorca's work.
Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price
Federico Garcia Lorca's extraordinarily powerful drama, the last he
wrote before his assassination, explores the darkness at the heart
of repression. When Bernarda's husband dies, she locks all the
doors and windows. She tells her grown-up daughters to sew and be
silent. 'There are eight years of mourning ahead of us. While it
lasts not even the wind will get into this house.' But locks can't
hold back the growing tide of desire. This English version of The
House of Bernarda Alba, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama
Classics series, is translated and introduced by Jo Clifford, and
also contains a chronology and suggestions for further reading.
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Four Major Plays (Paperback)
Federico Garcia Lorca; Edited by Nicholas Round; Translated by John Edmunds; Notes by Ann MacLaren
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`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. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's
Classics has made available the widest range of literature from
around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Federico Garcia Lorca is perhaps the most celebrated of all
twentieth-century Spanish writers, known not only for his plays but
also for several collections of poems published both in his short
lifetime and after. Lorca's poetry is steeped in the land, climate,
and folklore of his native Andalusia, though he writes memorably of
New York and Cuba too. Writing often in modernist idiom, and full
of startling imagery, he evokes a world of intense feelings, silent
suffering, and dangerous love.
This unique parallel-text edition balances poems from Lorca's early
collections with his better-known later work, providing a clear
vision of his poetic development and drawing attention to the
brilliance and originality of some of the earlier work. Key poems
from all Lorca's collections appear here, including the recently
discovered Sonnets of Dark Love. Martin Sorrell's translations are
thoughtful and accomplished, and D. Gareth Walters's shrewd
Introduction, with its distinctive focus on the achievements of the
poet, gives a clear and balanced appraisal of the poetry, while
steering away from the tendency to mythologize Lorca's life and
death. This edition also includes helpful notes, a bibliography, a
chronology, and an index of titles.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more."
"Let us agree," Federico Garcia Lorca wrote, "that one of man's
most beautiful postures is that of St. Sebastian."
"In my 'Saint Sebastian' I remember you," Salvador Dali replied to
Garcia Lorca, referring to the essay on aesthetics that Dali had
just written, ." . . and sometimes I think he "is" you. Let's see
whether Saint Sebastian turns out to be you."
This exchange is but a glimpse into the complex relationship
between two renowned and highly influential twentieth-century
artists. On the centennial of Dali's birth, "Sebastian's Arrows"
presents a never-before-published collection of their letters,
lectures, and mementos.
Written between 1925 and 1936, the letters and lectures bring to
life a passionate friendship marked by a thoughtful dialogue on
aesthetics and the constant interaction between poetry and
painting. From their student days in Madrid's Residencia de
Estudiantes, where the two waged war against cultural
"putrefaction" and mocked the sacred cows of Spanish art, Dali and
Garcia Lorca exchanged thoughts on the act of creation, modernity,
and the meaning of their art. The volume chronicles how in their
poetic skirmishes they sharpened and shaped each other's
work--Garcia Lorca defending his verses of absence and elegy and
his love of tradition while Dali argued for his theories of
"Clarity" and "Holy Objectivity" and the unsettling logic of
Surrealism.
Christopher Maurer's masterful prologue and selection of letters,
texts, and images (many generously provided by the Fundacion
Gala-Salvador Dali and Fundacion Federico Garcia Lorca), offer
compelling and intimate insights into the lives and work of two
iconic artists. The two men had a "tragic, passionate
relationship," Dali once wrote--a friendship pierced by the arrows
of Saint Sebastian.
Written while Federico Garcia Lorca was a student at Columbia
University in 1929-30, Poet in New York is one of the most
important books he produced, and certainly one of the most
important books ever published about New York City. Indeed, it is a
book that changed the direction of poetry in both Spain and the
Americas, a path breaking and defining work of modern literature.
Timed to coincide with the citywide celebration of Garcia Lorca in
New York planned for 2013, this edition, which has been revised
once again by the renowned Garcia Lorca scholar Christopher Maurer,
includes thrilling material -new photographs, new and emended
letters - that has only recently come to light. Complementing these
additions are Garcia Lorca's witty and insightful letters to his
family describing his feelings about America and his temporary home
there (a dorm room in Columbia's John Jay Hall), the annotated
photographs that accompany those letters, a prose poem, extensive
notes, and an interpretive lecture by Garcia Lorca himself. An
excellent introduction to the work of a key figure of modern
poetry, this bilingual edition of Poet in New York, a strange,
timeless, vital book of verse, is also an exposition of the
American city in the twentieth century.
Lorca's Blood Wedding is a classic of twentieth-century theatre. The story is based on a newspaper fragment which told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with the son of the enemy family. Lorca uses it to investigate the subjects which fascinated him: desire, repression, ritual, and the constraints and commitments of the rural Spanish community in which the play is rooted. Ted Hughes's version stays close in spirit and letter to the original Spanish. With marvellous directness, he fuses Lorca's vision to his own, and the result is a powerful poetic text which captures all the violence and pathos of the play for an English-speaking audience.
A cherished erotic play by Federico Garcia Lorca, illustrated by a
major Spanish artist. Painting, poetry, and music come together in
Zobel Reads Lorca, as Fernando Zobel, a Harvard student who would
become one of Spain's most famous painters, translates and
illustrates Federico Garcia Lorca's haunting play about the wounds
of love. The premiere of Amor de Don Perlimplin con Belisa en su
jardin, an "erotic allelujia" which Lorca once called his most
cherished play, was shut down in 1928 by Spanish government censors
who confiscated the manuscript and locked it away in the
pornography section of a state archive. Lorca rewrote the work in
New York, and an amateur theater group brought it to the Spanish
stage a few years later. Since his death, the play has also been
transformed into ballet and opera. Zobel Reads Lorca presents
Zobel's previously unpublished translation and features contextual
essays from several scholars. Art historian Felipe Pereda studies
Lorca in the context of Zobel's development as a painter, Luis
Fernandez Cifuentes describes the precarious and much-debated state
of the humanities in Zobel's Harvard and throughout the United
States in the 1940s, and Christopher Maurer delves into musical and
visual aspects of the play's American productions.
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Yerma (Paperback, New Ed)
Federico Garcia Lorca; Edited by Rebecca Warner
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The second of Lorca's trilogy of rural dramas, Yerma, is a blend of
contrasting moods through which Lorca charts the increasingly
destructive obsession of a childless young country wife, and probes
the darker zones of human fears and desires. The play's rich mode
of expression - a combination of verbal, visual and auditory images
and rhythms - is also geared to celebrating sexual attraction and
fertility, creation and procreation. Through his characterization
of the play's central figure, Lorca raises the question of women's
social status - a controversial question both then and now, and one
to which Robin Warner pays particular attention in his critical
introduction to the play. He also examines the links between the
dramatic structure of Yerma and the importance of cultural politics
during the course of the Second Spanish Republic. The Spanish text
is supported by an introduction and notes in English, as well as by
an extensive vocabulary and section of discussion questions. -- .
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.
In addition to a substantial introduction to the life and works of
Federico Garcia Lorca-avant-garde poet, playwright, and soul of
Spain's "Generation of '27"-this collection features vibrant new
English translations of four of his plays. The legacy of a
dramatic, religious, and social iconoclast whose death made him a
martyr of the left in Civil-War Spain and who today is embraced as
a gay icon shines through in Michael Kidd's stage-worthy renderings
of Yerma , Blood Wedding , The House of Bernarda Alba , and a more
experimental play, The Audience , a kaleidoscopic exploration of
sexual identity and theater.
My heart brims with billows and minnows of shadows and silver
Beautiful, brutal, strange and lovely: this is Lorca reborn, in a
selection of previously unpublished pieces and masterful new
translations. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the
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James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to
Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and
disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep
South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest
reaches of outer space.
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Blood Wedding (Paperback, Student)
Federico Garcia Lorca, Gwynne Edwards; Introduction by Gwynne Edwards; Translated by Gwynne Edwards
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Blood Wedding is set in a village community in Lorca's Andalusia,
and tells the story of a couple drawn irresistibly together in the
face of an arranged marriage. This tragic and poetic play is the
work on which his international reputation was founded. Like many
of Lorca's passionate and intensely lyrical plays that focus on
peasant life and the forces of nature, Blood Wedding combines
innovatory dramatic technique with Spanish popular tradition.
Methuen Drama Student Editions are expertly annotated texts of a
wide range of plays from the modern and classic repertoires. As
well as the complete text of the play itself, the volume contains a
chronology of the playwright's life and work; an introduction
giving the background to the play; a discussion of the various
interpretations; notes on individual words and phrases in the text;
and questions for further study.
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