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Yerma
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- Book Synopsis
- 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 her marriage in a traditional society that denies women sexual or social equality. Her desperate desire for a child drives her to commit a terrible crime at the end of the play.
- About The Author
- Federico Garcìa Lorca was born in 1898, in Andalusia, Spain. A poet and dramatist, and also a gifted painter and pianist, his early popular ballads earned him the title of 'poet of the gypsies'. In 1930 he turned his attention to theatre, visiting remote villages and playing classic and new works for peasant audiences. In 1936, shortly after the outbreak of Civil War, he was murdered by Nationalist partisans. His body was never found.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780713683264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, (20 February 2007)
- Number of Pages
- 137
- Weight
- 200 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 x 13 mm
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