Three Plays: Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba

Resumen del libro

Few modern playwrights rival Federico García Lorca in the creation of poetic drama. In these three plays, his 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 than on an elemental, radical outlook on human life. His images are strikingly beautiful and poetically exact, but no American translator has ever been able to make his characters speak unaffectedly. Here, Michael Dewell of the National Repertory Theatre and Carmen Zapata of the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts have created versions that are both performable and readable. This edition is introduced by Christopher Maurer, the general editor of the Complete Poetical Works of García Lorca.

Biografía del autor

Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) es una de las voces más universales de la literatura española. Poeta, dramaturgo y prosista, supo unir la tradición popular con las vanguardias de su tiempo en obras que marcaron un hito en la lírica y el teatro del siglo XX. Libros como i Romancero gitano /i o i Poeta en Nueva York /i y piezas teatrales como i Bodas de sangre, El público /i o i La casa de Bernarda Alba /i lo consagraron como un creador de enorme fuerza lírica y dramática. Su vida y su obra, truncadas por la violencia de la Guerra Civil, lo convirtieron en símbolo de la libertad creativa y la memoria cultural.