| As he wrote La casa de Bernarda Alba, Federico Garcia Lorca explained: ?drama is poetry that escapes the book and becomes human. And as it is being made it talks and shouts, cries and despairs?.Lorca saw in theatre the most perfect means to reach people?s souls, more immediate and effective than poetry, and he kindled this possibility even amidst difficult times.Lorca is, mainly, a poet, and as so his plays possess great visual as well as linguistic virtue.The last of the rural tragedies ?Bernar....[more] |
| In a remote Spanish village, Yerma longs for a child but is unable to conceive. This compelling and elemental tale of a woman's quest for a child taps into some of theatre's most universal themes-love, passion, sexuality, marriage. In this new translation, Pam Gems has stripped the text to the poetic core of Lorca's words in all their epic glory. |
| Illustrated in black & white, this is an excellent presentation of the literary classic. Clear & concise text accompanied by footnotes & explanations at the bottom of each page, help the student to better understand what the author had in mind. You will also find a brief summary & review questions at the end of each chapter or act. Each paragraph is numbered for easy consultation. |
| Federico García Lorca was born near Granada in 1898. Initially set on studying music in Paris, after his piano teacher died in 1916 he became involved in a literary and artisitc group, including H G Wells and Rudyard Kipling. This move towards a more literary life eventually paid off. Blood Wedding (Bodas de Sangre) was written in 1932, and was first performed in Madrid in March 1933. It proved to be the popular and critical success he'd been waiting for. When the play was staged in Buenos Aires....[more] |
| When an attractive young woman marries an older man, both are unhappy with the relationship: she boasts about all the men she might have married, while he laments his rotten luck at the local tavern. Text copyright 2004 Lectorum Publications, Inc. |
1988
| Perhaps the most famous book of poetry written in Spanish in the 20th century, this volume masterfully conveys the richness of Lorca's native Andalusia. |
1992
| This bilingual edition was the first to include Lorca's last poems, the previously lost Sonnets of Dark Love. It covers the full range of his poetry, from the early poems and the gypsy ballads to the agitated Poet in New York and the Arab-influenced gacelas and casidas. Also included is the Lament for Sanchez Mejias, Lorca's great elegy for his bullfighter friend, as well as his famous lecture, "Theory and Function of the Duende". |
1997
| `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 desolateYerma, the fading spinster Rosita, and Bernarda Alba's abused household o....[more] |
1991
| A revised edition of this major writer's complete poetical work "And I who was walking with the earth at my waist, saw two snowy eagles and a naked girl. The one was the other and the girl was neither." --from "Qasida of the Dark Doves" Federico Garciacute;a Lorca is the greatest poet of twentieth-century Spain and one of the world's most influential modernist writers. Christopher Maurer, a leading Lorca scholar and editor, has substantially revised FSG's earlier edition of the collected poems o....[more] |
1973
| A unique gathering of poems by two great twentieth-century poets, with the original Spanish versions and powerful English translations on facing pages. In a new preface, editor and translator Robert Bly explores what the poems reveal today about politics, the spirit, and the purpose of art. |
1971
| " Poema del cante jondo and Romancero Gitano, the books of poems that Lorca wrote first, out of his excited response to gypsy music, poetry, and dance all around him in Granada, contain some of his most powerful and trenchant lyrical work, original, inimitable, daring, and a clear expression of the duende, the Dionysian daemon in poetry, of which he wrote eloquently. A new, fresh, consistent translation-and Mr. Angel's is all of these-is a welcome return to that wild dance, in English."-W.S. Mer....[more] |
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