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Blood Wedding
Federico Garcia Lorca
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Description for Blood Wedding
Paperback. Presents the story that 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. This title investigates the subjects as: desire, repression, ritual, and the constraints and commitments of the rural Spanish community in which the play is rooted. Num Pages: 80 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 196 x 4. Weight in Grams: 96.
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 constraints and commitments of the rural Spanish community in which the play is rooted. Ted Hughes's version stays close in spirit and letter to the original Spanish. With marvellous directness, he fused Lorca's vision to his own, and the result is a powerful poetic text which captures all the ... Read more
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 constraints and commitments of the rural Spanish community in which the play is rooted. Ted Hughes's version stays close in spirit and letter to the original Spanish. With marvellous directness, he fused Lorca's vision to his own, and the result is a powerful poetic text which captures all the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571190065
SKU
V9780571190065
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Ref
99-75
About Federico Garcia Lorca
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898 - 1936), poet and dramatist was one the greatest Spanish writers of the twentieth-century. He was killed by Nationalist partisans at the age of thirty-eight at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 by Faber & Faber ... Read more
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