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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,... Read Full Overview

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,... Read Full Overview

Es una producci n po tica y teatral que se centra en el an lisis de un sentimiento tr gico. Desde lo antiguo y lo moderno, en la manera de ver la tragedia. Todo ello enmarcado en un paisaje andaluz tr gico y universal. El tema principal tratado en este gran drama es la vida y... Read Full Overview

Desde lo antiguo a lo moderno, recogiendo mito y leyenda, esta obra teatral en prosa y verso es la tragedia m?s cruda de Federico Garc?a Lorca, una reflexi?n sobre la vida, la muerte y la ?nica fuerza capaz de vencerla: el amor.

Bodas de sangre is arguably the best-known work by the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers. A passionate story of family feud and tragic elopement is played out in the setting of a poor country village, building up to a dramatic ending full of the intensely... Read Full Overview

Federico Garcia Lorca was born near Granada in 1898. Initially set on studying music in Paris, after his piano teacher died in 1916 he became involved in a literary and artistic group, including H G Wells and Rudyard Kipling. This move towards a more literary life eventually... Read Full Overview

Garc a Lorca's passionate, lyrical tale of longing and revenge: a twentieth century masterpiece.

Translated by Jo Clifford.

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.
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Blood Wedding by Federico Garc?a Lorca is a classic of Spanish literature, the tragedy of a woman loved by two men. The man she has loved since childhood is hot-blooded Leonardo, but his family are hated by her own folk, and he marries someone else. Then, on her wedding-night,... Read Full Overview

Con Bodas de sangre, obra en tres actos, escrita en verso y en prosa en 1933, Federico Garc a Lorca se propuso escribir una tragedia en el sentido cl sico del t rmino, un g nero que consideraba la verdadera ra z del teatro.

La obra est ambientada en la tradicional... Read Full Overview

THE STORY: Two families in a semi-mythical rural Spain are intricately bound in an unbreakable cycle of murder and revenge. The death-bound love triangle at the center of the play fuels these passions to a fever pitch and propels the story to its u

La obra comienza con una conversaci?n entre el novio y su madre, en la que planean pedirle la mano de su novia. Cuando el novio est? a punto de salir a la vi?a, le pide una navaja a su madre, pero ella no se la quiere dar porque dice que las navajas pueden matar y recuerda la... Read Full Overview