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Federico García Lorca (Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists)
Federico Garca Lorca - Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists Author:Maria M. Delgado Immortalized in death by The Clash, Pablo Neruda, Salvador DalÃ, Dmitri Shostakovich and Lindsay Kemp, Federico GarcÃa Lorca's spectre haunts both contemporary Spain and the cultural landscape beyond. This study offers a fresh examination of one of the Spanish language’s most resonant voices; exploring how the very factors which led to h... more »is emergence as a cultural icon also shaped his dramatic output. The works themselves are also awarded the space that they deserve, combining performance histories with incisive textual analysis to restate Lorca’s presence as a playwright of extraordinary vision, in works such as:
Blood Wedding
The Public
The House of Bernarda Alba
Yerma.
Federico GarcÃa Lorca is an invaluable new resource for those seeking to understand this complex and multifaceted figure: artist, playwright, director, poet, martyr and in the eyes of many, Spain’s ‘national dramatist’.« less