| Yerma Contributor(s): Lorca, Federico Garcia (Author), Edwards, Gwynne (Introduction by), Edwards, Gwynne (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0713683260 ISBN-13: 9780713683264 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $14.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: Spanish Published: June 2008 Annotation: Yerma (meaning "barren") is one of three tragic plays about peasants and rural life that make up Federico Garca Lorca's "rural trilogy." It is possibly Lorca's harshest play following a woman's Herculean struggle against the curse of infertility. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - General |
| Dewey: 862.62 |
| Series: Methuen Drama Modern Plays |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.12" W x 7.8" (0.38 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Spanish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Garcia Lorca, Federico: - Federico Garcia Lorca, one of Spain s greatest poets and dramatists, was born in a village near Granada in 1898 and was murdered in 1936, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.Megson, Chris: - CHRIS MEGSON is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK. His recent publications include The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays (2010); his book on The Seventies, for 'Methuen's Decades of Modern British Playwrighting' series, is forthcoming in 2012. He has published widely on British theatre culture since 1968 and documentary/Tribunal theatre. |