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'Yerma' es una obra teatral popular que desarrolla una tragedia de ambiente rural. Est dividida en tres actos de dos cuadros cada uno narra la historia de una campesina de nombre Yerma, frustrada por no poder engendrar hijos con su marido, Juan. La obra explora el conflicto... Read Full Overview

The second of Lorca's trilogy of rural dramas, Yerma, is a blend of contrasting moods through which Lorca charts the increasingly destructive obsession of a childless young country wife, and probes the darker zones of human fears and desires. The play's rich mode of expression... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

La vida corre por la sangre de Yerma. Est casada con un hombre honesto, bondadoso, trabajador, fiel. Sin embargo, ella vive un dilema freudiano, existe el amor sin ning n tipo de deseo sexual? puede su buen marido hacerla feliz sin desearla?, puede, darle una vida intensa... Read Full Overview

The second of Lorca's great trilogy of rural dramas, "Yerma" is a concentrated blend of contrasting moods through which Lorca charts the increasingly destructive obsession of a childless young country wife, and probes the darker zones of human fears and desires. The play's rich... Read Full Overview

A new volume in the popular value-for-money Drama Classics series.

The second of Lorca's great trilogy of rural dramas, "Yerma" is a concentrated blend of contrasting moods through which Lorca charts the increasingly destructive obsession of a childless young country wife, and probes the darker zones of human fears and desires. The play's rich... Read Full Overview

One of Lorca's best known plays tells the story of a young peasant wife in rural Spain whose sole conscious desire is to embody what she regards as the natural, moral and social laws governing her life as a woman in motherhood. The tragedy of Yerma, which literally means 'barren',... Read Full Overview

One of Lorca's best known plays tells the story of a young peasant wife in rural Spain whose sole conscious desire is to embody what she regards as the natural, moral and social laws governing her life as a woman in motherhood. The tragedy of Yerma, which literally means 'barren',... Read Full Overview

La vida corre por la sangre de Yerma. Est casada con un hombre honesto, bondadoso, trabajador, fiel. Sin embargo, ella vive un dilema freudiano, existe el amor sin ning n tipo de deseo sexual? puede su buen marido hacerla feliz sin desearla?, puede, darle una vida intensa... Read Full Overview