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Blood Wedding (Student Editions)

Blood Wedding (Student Editions)

by Federico Garcia Lorca (Author), Gwynne Edwards (Editor), Gwynne Edwards (Editor), Federico Garcia Lorca (Author), Federico Garcia Lorca (Author)

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    Student Edition 1997

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Synopsis

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.Methuen 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 photographs from stage productions.

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Format: Student Edition
 Pages: 160
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 25 Aug 1997
ISBN 10: 0413708705
ISBN 13: 9780413708700

Media Reviews

The revolutionary legacy of Federico Garcia Lorca endures in his poetry and in his three poetic tragedies. The first of the three plays, Blood Wedding, surges with passion and earth wisdom - The New York Times

Great poetic play - the first of his ground-breaking folk trilogy of Spanish Life. - The Guardian

Lorca's drama of forbidden passion, family feud and devouring maternal love and grief is succulent with symbolism. - The Times of London

Author Bio
Federico Garcia Lorca was born in 1898, in Andalusia, Spain. A poet and dramatist, and also a gifted painter and pianist, his early popular ballads earned him the title of 'poet of the gypsies'. In 1930 he turned his attention to theatre, visiting remote villages and playing classic and new works for peasant audiences. In 1936, shortly after the outbreak of Civil War, he was murdered by Nationalist partisans. His body was never found. Gwynne Edwards is a specialist in Spanish theatre and cinema, until recently Professor of Spanish at the University of Aberystwyth. His books include: Lorca: The Theatre Beneath the Sand; Lorca: Living in the Theatre; Dramatists in Perspective: Spanish Theatre in the Twentieth Century; The Discreet Art of Luis Bunuel: and Almodovar: Labyrinths of Passion. He has also translated and adapted more than forty plays from Spanish, French and Italian, many of which have been staged at major theatres in Britain and the United States. He has published three collections of Lorca plays with Methuen Drama, together with student editions of Blood Wedding and The House of Bernarda Alba, and also collections of seventeenth-century Spanish and contemporary Spanish-American plays adapted from the correspondence and prose writings of Dylan Thomas.