The House of Bernarda Alba (Garca Lorca Federico)(Paperback)

The House of Bernarda Alba (Garca Lorca Federico)(Paperback)

Lorca's passionate all-women play, in a new version by Rona

Four Major Plays (Garca Lorca Federico)(Paperback)

In his four last plays (Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba, Dona Rosita the Spinster) Federico Garc�a Lorca offered his disturbed and disturbing personal vision to Spanish audiences of the 1930s---unready, as he thought them, for the sexual frankness and surreal expression of his

House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays (Lorca Federico Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

Includes the plays 'The House of Bernarda Alba', 'Yerma', and 'Blood Wedding'. These plays appeal for freedom and sexual and social

House of Bernarda Alba (Lorca Federico Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

Finished just two months before the author's murder on 18 August 1936 by a gang of Franco's supporters, The House of Bernarda Alba is now accepted as Lorca's great masterpiece of love and loathing. Five daughters live together in a single household with a tyrannical

La Casa de Bernarda Alba: By Federico Garca Lorca (Ramsden H.)(Paperback)

Completed only two months before the author's execution in Granada at the age of thirty-eight, La casa de Bernarda Alba marks the completion of Lorca's 'trilogia de la tierra espanola' and is commonly held to be his greatest play. The theme of vitality and repression that runs as a leitmotif

A Companion to Federico Garca Lorca (Bonaddio Federico)(Paperback)

A Companion to Federico Garcia Lorca provides a clear, critical appraisal of the issues and debates surrounding the work of Spain's most celebrated poet and dramatist. It considers past and current approaches to the study of Lorca, and also suggests new directions for further investigation. An

Selected Poems (Lorca Federico Garcia)(Paperback)

Federico Garc�a Lorca is perhaps the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers, known not only for his plays but also for several collections of poems published both in his short lifetime and after. Lorca's poetry is steeped in the land, climate, and folklore of his native

Lorca: Three Plays (Lorca Federico Garca)(Paperback)

Lorca's passionate, lyrical tales of longing and revenge put the spotlight on the rural poor of 1930s Spain and are considered masterpieces of twentieth-century theatre. These plays exhibit Lorca's intense anger at the injustices of society, and his determination to create art that might remedy it

After Lorca (Spicer Jack)(Paperback)

Out of print for decades, this is the legendary American poet's tribute to Federico Garc a Lorca, including translations of the great Spanish poet's work. Jack Spicer was one of the outstanding figures of the mid-twentieth-century San Francisco Renaissance, bent on fashioning a visionary new

Blood Wedding: Bodas de Sangre (Garca Lorca Federico)(Paperback)

Gypsy Ballads (Garca Lorca Federico)(Pevná vazba)

Federico Garcia Lorca wrote the Gypsy Ballads between 1924 and 1927. When the book was published it caused a sensation in the literary world. Drawing on the traditional Spanish ballad form, Lorca described his Romancero Gitano as the poem of Andalucia...A book that hardly expresses visible

Three Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alba (Garcia Lorca Federico)(Paperback)

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

The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (Garcia Lorca Federico)(Paperback)

This selection has been the introduction for generations of American readers to the mesmerizing poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1937). Lorca is admired the world over for the lyricism, immediacy and clarity of his poetry, as well as for his ability to encompass techniques of the symbolist

Selected Poems (Lorca Federico Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

One of Spain's greatest and most well-loved poets, Lorca is admired for the emotional intensity and dark brilliance of his work. From the playful 'Suites' to his dark vision of urban life, 'Poet in New York', his range was remarkable. This title provides versions by various poets and translators,

Blood Wedding (Lorca Federico Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

Blood Wedding (Lorca Federico Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

Lorca's Blood Wedding is a classic of twentieth-century theatre. The story is based on a newspaper fragment which told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with the son of the enemy family. Lorca uses it to investigate the subjects which fascinated him: desire, repression, ritual, and the

Blood Wedding (Mse) (Lorca Federico Garcia)(Paperback)

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

The Long Way: Sheridan House Maritime Classic (Moitessier Bernard)(Paperback)

Bernard Moitessier was in the lead and nearing the finish of the Golden Cup--a solo circumnavigation of the world--when he abandoned the race and set his course for a personal journey that would conclude three months later in Tahiti. Moitessier himself recounts the story of his personal quest in

Heartbreak House (Shaw George Bernard)(Paperback)

Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw's telling indictment of the generation responsible for World War I--part of the official Bernard Shaw Library A Penguin Classic When Ellie Dunn joins a house party at the home of the eccentric Captain Shotover, she causes a stir with her

Poet in New York (Lorca Federico Garcia)(Paperback / softback)

Features a poem expressing tortured feelings of alienation and dislocation. This book also offers translations of the poet's letters as well as a lecture he gave about this work. It is illustrated with archive

Surge (Bernard Jay)(Paperback)

Jay Bernard's extraordinary debut is a fearless exploration of the New Cross Fire of 1981, a house fire at a birthday party in which thirteen young black people were killed. Dubbed the 'New Cross Massacre', the fire was initially believed to be a racist attack, and the indifference with which the

Country Houses, Castles and Mansions of Peeblesshire (Byrom Bernard)(Paperback / softback)

Country Houses, Castles and Mansions of Selkirkshire (Byrom Bernard)(Paperback / softback)

Bodas de sangre (Lorca Federico Garcia)(Paperback)

'This excellent edition is most welcome. A select bibliography, a brief vocabulary, several footnotes to explain points of difficulty, fourteen long endnotes.. and even the music of the songs, make the edition an extremely valuable and interesting volume, offering the reader the text of the play