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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 9788437605609 This is a Translation by Ted Hughes of Federico Garcia Lorca’s short play Blood Wedding. Anyone familiar with Lorca’s Poetry will know roughly what to expect here: Love, Death, Blood, and Feuds, all going on in a strangely beautiful Spanish dreamscape, where the characters sleepwalk like puppets controlled by their passions. However, giving Lorca’s talent the scope of a play to express itself brings out something richer than his poetry. We see a bit more character development, more local colour and tradition – more Andalucia, more Angst. And yet it is still beautiful in places, poetic. This is not just a screenplay, this is something that reads very well on its own – it is rhythmic, heavily symbolic; it has the lightness of a dreamer’s feet and the grit of Clint Eastwood’s stubble. What we miss from reading it alone in place of seeing it performed, is filled in by the imagination, which is well supported by the strong imagery and plainly-expressed and often terse expression of the characters, which gives them an immediacy on the page. Definitely one to recommend to fans of Lorca, and to those with an interest in tragedy or Spanish culture. Obra teatral que evoca las tragedias clásicas. Sencilla elaboración, pero con una intensidad que solo un dramaturgo de la talla de García Lorca puede obtener. Los personajes: La Novia, El Novio, El Padre (de la novia), La Madre (del novio) y Leonardo, forman un cuadro caracteres tópicos fácilmente definibles, sin características visuales que destacar, pero con una gran fuerza interpretativa (en su guión). Cabe destacar el papel de ella, La Novia, que es la protagonista sobre la que recae el peso de la acción. La boda entre los dos novios parece que se celebrará sin ningún tipo de percance a pesar de la posición reacia de La Madre (figura matriarcal que recuerda a la de Bernarda). La aparición, en el siguiente acto de La Novia indica, con tan sólo unas líneas, los sentimientos que chocan y maltratan los deseos y deberes de la mujer de aquel entonces. Las pasiones desmedidas se materializan en esta mujer, apunto de casarse, y la aparición de Leonardo, que galopa para pretenderla. El estallido, el desencadenamiento de la tragedia, es hermosamente desolador. Las figuras poéticas que decoran el texto son pura belleza. La narración se sale del papel, habla, grita. Una de las creaciones más poderosas, sin lugar a dudas, de Lorca. no reviews | add a review
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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. This tragic and poetic play is the work on which his international reputation was founded. Like many of Lorca's passionate and intensely lyrical plays that focus on peasant life and the forces of nature, Blood Wedding combines innovatory dramatic technique with Spanish popular tradition. Methuen Drama Student Editions are expertly annotated texts of a wide range of plays from the modern and classic repertoires. As well as the complete text of the play itself, the volume contains a chronology of the playwright's life and work; an introduction giving the background to the play; a discussion of the various interpretations; notes on individual words and phrases in the text; and questions for further study. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)862.62Literature Spanish and Portuguese Spanish drama 20th Century 1900-1945LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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