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Three Tragedies

by Federico Garcia Lorca

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Blood Wedding. Concerned with love that cannot become marriage among the primitive hill people of Castile, this is a play of the workings of tremendous passions and tribal ritual toward an inescapable tragic end.Yerma. "The whole tragic burden of Yerma is measured by the deepening of her struggle with the problem of frustrated motherhood." --FromGarcía Lorca, by Edwin Honig.The House of Bernarda Alba. Again about "women whom love moves to tragedy,"Bernarda Alba tells of the repression of five daughters by a domineering mother, of how their natural spirits circumvent her but bring violence and death.… (more)
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This is a beautiful and subtle inquiry into what it's like for someone desperate for a child to be denied a child, and thought it's pretty much said all it has to say by the last act, the first two-thirds of it cut me to the quick again and again. ( )
1 vote MeditationesMartini | Aug 4, 2016 |
I have only read The House of Bernarda Alba
  lucybrown | Sep 26, 2015 |
This translation was created for the stage and is noted to be very readable also. Of interest to me: the cover illustration is Dama espanola sentada by Fredrico Garcia Lorca.
  MarieTea | May 27, 2012 |
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Lorca, Federico Garciaprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Garcia Lorca, FranciscoIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Graham-Luján, JamesTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Lustig, AlvinCover designersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
O'Connell, Richard L.Translatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Blood Wedding. Concerned with love that cannot become marriage among the primitive hill people of Castile, this is a play of the workings of tremendous passions and tribal ritual toward an inescapable tragic end.Yerma. "The whole tragic burden of Yerma is measured by the deepening of her struggle with the problem of frustrated motherhood." --FromGarcía Lorca, by Edwin Honig.The House of Bernarda Alba. Again about "women whom love moves to tragedy,"Bernarda Alba tells of the repression of five daughters by a domineering mother, of how their natural spirits circumvent her but bring violence and death.

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