Blood Wedding: Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)

by Federico García Lorca, Jo Clifford (Translator)

Overview

The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding.

Blood Wedding is García Lorca's passionate, lyrical tale of longing and revenge: a twentieth century masterpiece.

Translated by Jo Clifford.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780011264
Publisher:	Hern, Nick Books
Publication date:	05/02/2015
Series:	NHB Drama Classics
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	300
Lexile:	NP (what's this?)
File size:	77 KB
Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca, known as Federico García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director.

Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. His major plays include Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba

He was executed by Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War.