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Blood Wedding (Student Editions)

Blood Wedding (Student Editions)

by Federico Garcia Lorca & Gwynne Edwards (Author)

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    Illustrated::Student Edition 2006

    $14.47

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    Paperback 2005

    $3.25

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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. 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.

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Format: Illustrated::Student Edition
 Pages: 160
 Edition: Student ed.
 Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 15 Nov 2006
ISBN 10: 0713685166
ISBN 13: 9780713685169
Book Overview: Lorca's work is studied on Spanish and Drama courses and Blood Wedding, written at the height of his powers, is the work on which his international reputation is founded. A set text for WJEC GCE Drama and Theatre Studies 'Lorca is one of the few indisputably great dramatists of the twentieth century' Observer This Student Edition provides a full commentary and notes, a bibliography and questions for further study Sales of over 1000 copies in 2007.

Media Reviews
'Lorca is one of the few indisputably great dramatists of the twentieth century' Observer 'Lorca's great poetic play - the first of his ground-breaking folk trilogy of Spanish Life' Lyn Gardner, Guardian, 30.7.09 'Lorca's drama of forbidden passion, family feud and devouring maternal love and grief is succulent with symbolism' Sam Marlowe, The Times, 30.7.09 'Federico Garcia Lorca's Spanish love-and-death masterpiece...mixes up the rough and tumble of Andalucian peasant realism with surrealist images and stiff poetic formalism' Siobhan Murphy, Metro (London), 29.7.09
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.