Yerma

by Federico Garcia Lorca (Author), Federico Garcia Lorca (Author), Federico Garca Lorca (Author), Federico Garcia Lorca (Author)

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  Paperback
  2000

  $6.95

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  Paperback
  2007

  $16.66

  Yerma (meaning 'Barren') is one of three tragic plays about peasants and rural life that make up Lorca's 'rural trilogy'. It is possibly Lorca's harshest play following a woman's Herculean struggle against the curse of infertility. The woman's barrenness becomes a metaphor for her marriage in a traditional society that denies women sexual or social equality. Her desperate desire for a child drives her to commit a terrible crime at the end of the play. This Student Edition comes complete with a full introduction; plot synopsis; commentary on characters, context and themes; bibliography; chronology, and questions for study.