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Four Major Plays
Federico García Lorca
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Description for Four Major Plays
Paperback. Editor(s): Round, Nicholas G. Translator(s): Edmunds, John. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 216.
`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 García 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 ... Read more
`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 García 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Weight
216g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199537518
SKU
V9780199537518
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About Federico García Lorca
Nicholas Round is Hughes Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Sheffield. His published and performed translations of Spanish and Portuguese theatre range from the 17th-century comedia to the 1950s. John Edmunds founded the Department of Theatre, Film, and Television Studies at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and was Director from 1973 to 1985. Four of his translations ... Read more
Reviews for Four Major Plays
His versions are accurate ... faithful ... fluent and idiomatic; they look like utterances of English ... Readers can be sure that the texts will not lead them astray, but they will also be grateful for the quite excellent introductory essay by Nick Round. This is a characteristically gritty display of erudition and common sense ... extremely well-prepared edition.
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