Five Plays: Comedies and Tragicomedies
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Federico Garc?a Lorca's position as one of the few geniuses of the modern theatre was firmly established in the English-speaking world with his Three Tragedies. Here, with an introduction by the dramatist's brother, Francisco Garc?a Lorca, are five of his "comedies," in the authorized translations, extensively revised to reflect recent Lorca scholarship and to convey the sparkle, freshness, and magic of the original Spanish. The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife tells of a young beauty married to an old man, a theme that often concerned Lorca. The resolution for the earnest shoemaker, who leaves home and comes back disguised as a puppeteer, is lighthearted, but there is underlying pathos. The Love of Don Perlimplin is again about a girl who weds someone much older, this time a bookish, 18th-century gentleman, who seeks an original but sardonic way out of the situation. According to Lorca himself, "Dona Rosita is the outer gentleness and inner scorching of a girl in Granada who, little by little, turns into that grotesque and moving thing -- an old maid in Spain."
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0811200906
ISBN13:9780811200905
Release Date:January 1963
Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Length:251 Pages
Weight:0.52 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.2" x 7.9"
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"Death disguises itself as Love."
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
Lorca's plays are as interesting as Lorca himself is. This is the only publication that I could find containing "The Butterfly's Evil Spell." I have seen two versions of the play and can not wait for another. However just reading this play will being images of life its self to you and you can visualize what it would be like as a beetle-poet in love with a butterfly. You will find yourself quoting many lines. Lorca: A Dream of Life
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