Federico García Lorca was born in Fuente Vaqueros, on the plain outside Granada, in 1898, and was killed in 1936, at the start of the Spanish Civil War. He was thirty-eight and already one of the most admired poets and playwrights of his day, a leading member of the Generation of '27.
Gypsy Ballads, from 1928, turned the traditional ballad into something new: moons, horses, knives and an Andalusia both popular and mysterious, told in startling images. Lorca was also a musician, an artist and the director of La Barraca, a student theatre company that took the classics to Spanish villages.
For the stage he wrote rural tragedies of enormous intensity. Blood Wedding tells of a wedding that ends in flight and revenge. The House of Bernarda Alba, finished shortly before his death, shuts five sisters away under the stifling rule of their mother.
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Gypsy BalladsFederico García Lorca
Gypsy BalladsFederico García Lorca
Gypsy Ballads
Federico García Lorca
Eighteen ballads in which the moon, the night and death circle a Romani world raised to the level of myth, set in an Andalusia more dreamed than described. Lorca blends the old oral ballad with startling, modern imagery, so each poem feels both ancient and brand new. It is a short book that rewards reading aloud, full of sensual music and quiet sorrow.
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The House of Bernarda AlbaFederico García Lorca
The House of Bernarda AlbaFederico García Lorca
The House of Bernarda Alba
Federico García Lorca
Newly widowed, Bernarda Alba locks her five daughters into strict mourning, turning their Andalusian home into a whitewashed cage of rules and silence. With no man ever on stage, longing and resentment build under the weight of village gossip and tradition. Lorca's final play is short, fierce and charged, like a storm held in a closed room.
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Blood WeddingFederico García Lorca
Blood WeddingFederico García Lorca
Blood Wedding
Federico García Lorca
In a harsh, almost mythical rural Andalusia, a wedding brings together families bound by old grudges and desires no one dares to speak aloud. Lorca weaves verse and prose into a short, fierce tragedy where the moon, the land and the knife seem to have voices of their own. It reads like a burning poem, heavy with the feeling that fate has already decided.
