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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
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Twenty Lives
Cornelius Nepos, John Edmund Barss
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R1,051
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Beginning Latin (Hardcover)
John Edmund Barss; Created by New York University Publishing Company
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R987
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