The house of Bernarda Alba

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Published April 11, 1999

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978-1-85459-459-4
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The House of Bernarda Alba (Spanish: La casa de Bernarda Alba) is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. Commentators have often grouped it with Blood Wedding and Yerma as a "rural trilogy". Garcia Lorca did not include it in his plan for a "trilogy of the Spanish land" (which remained unfinished at the time of his murder).Garcia Lorca described the play in its subtitle as a drama of women in the villages of Spain. The House of Bernarda Alba was Garcia Lorca's last play, completed on 19 June 1936, two months before Garcia Lorca's death during the Spanish Civil War. The play was first performed on 8 March 1945 at the Avenida Theatre in Buenos Aires. The play centers on the events of a house in Andalusia during a period of mourning, in which Bernarda Alba (aged 60) wields total control over her five daughters Angustias (39 …

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“The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays” by Federico Garcia Lorca is a beautifully executed collection of the three best known plays by one of the best Spanish language authors of the twentieth century. This translation for Penguin Modern Classics by Michael Dewell and Carmen Zapata is unique in that it was crafted through bi-lingual productions of the works with Spanish speaking actors. This practical quality makes the translation extremely fluid and captures both the meaning and the essence of the original.

The three works – “Blood Wedding,” “Yerma,” and “The House of Bernarda Alba” – are often classified together as the Rural Trilogy. It is true that all three are set in the backwaters of Spain and deal with the often surreal, melancholy lives of local people. But “Bernarda Alba” feels different than the other two works, which were intended to be part of Lorca’s unfinished Rural Trilogy. …

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