Four Key Plays: The Audience, Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba

by Federico García Lorca, Michael Kidd (Translator)

Overview

In addition to a substantial introduction to the life and works of Federico García Lorca—avant-garde poet, playwright, and soul of Spain's "Generation of '27"—this collection features vibrant new English translations of four of his plays. The legacy of a dramatic, religious, and social iconoclast whose death made him a martyr of the left in Civil-War Spain and who today is embraced as a gay icon shines through in Michael Kidd's stage-worthy renderings of Yerma, Blood Wedding, The House of Bernarda Alba, and a more experimental play, The Audience, a kaleidoscopic exploration of sexual identity and theater.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781624667756
Publisher:	Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date:	06/03/2019
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Michael Kidd is Professor of Languages and Cross-Cultural Studies, Augsburg University.

Editorial Reviews

"Kidd’s translations are excellent, both accurate and readable, and the biographical and critical guides are useful."
—Jonathan Mayhew, University of Kansas

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