Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0413708705, Paperback)

Blood Wedding is set in a village community in Lorca's Andalusia and tells the story of a couple drawn irresistibly together in the face of an arranged marriage. Written when Lorca was at the height of his powers, it is the play on which his international reputation was founded.

Poet, painter, musician, theatre director, and Spain's most celebrated dramatist, Federico Garcia Lorca was murdered by Nationalist sympathizers at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Many of his passionate and intensely lyrical plays focus on peasant life and the forces of human nature, combining innovatory dramatic technique with Spanish popular tradition.

"Lorca is one of the few indisputably great dramatists of the twentieth century."-Observer