The House Of Bernarda Alba

Author : Federico García Lorca
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350461802

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The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca Pdf

You bring such scandal to my house. In the domain of Bernarda Alba, a daughter who disobeys is no longer a daughter. Forced to live under their mother's tight grip as they mourn their father's death, can five sisters survive when young Adela dares for passion and freedom? Olivier Award-winner Harriet Walter (Succession) plays the formidable matriarch, guarding her reputation against the rising tide of her family's desires in this pitch-black drama exploring the consequences of oppressing women, in Alice Birch's radical new version of Federico García Lorca's modern masterpiece. This edition published to coincide with the world premiere at the National Theatre, London, in November 2023.

Author : Federico Garcia Lorca
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571318766

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The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca Pdf

Finished just two months before the author's murder on 18 August 1936 by a gang of Franco's supporters, The House of Bernarda Alba is now accepted as Lorca's great masterpiece of love and loathing. Five daughters live together in a single household with a tyrannical mother. When the father of all but the eldest girl dies, a cynical marriage is advanced which will have tragic consequences for the whole family. Lorca's fascinatingly modern play, rendered here in an English version by David Hare, speaks as powerfully as a political metaphor of oppression as it does as domestic drama. The House of Bernarda Alba premiered at the National Theatre, London, in March 2005.

Author : Federico García Lorca
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350461819

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The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca Pdf

You bring such scandal to my house. In the domain of Bernarda Alba, a daughter who disobeys is no longer a daughter. Forced to live under their mother's tight grip as they mourn their father's death, can five sisters survive when young Adela dares for passion and freedom? Olivier Award-winner Harriet Walter (Succession) plays the formidable matriarch, guarding her reputation against the rising tide of her family's desires in this pitch-black drama exploring the consequences of oppressing women, in Alice Birch's radical new version of Federico García Lorca's modern masterpiece. This edition published to coincide with the world premiere at the National Theatre, London, in November 2023.

Author : Federico García Lorca,Michael Dewell,Carmen Zapata
Publisher : Penguin Modern Classics
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Repression (Psychology)
ISBN : 0141185759

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The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays by Federico García Lorca,Michael Dewell,Carmen Zapata Pdf

The revolutionary genius of Spanish theatre, Lorca brought vivid and tragic-poetry to the stage with these powerful dramas. All appeal for freedom and sexual and social equality, and are also passionate defences of the imagination.

Author : Federico García Lorca,Michael Dewell,Carmen Zapata
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780374523329

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Three Plays by Federico García Lorca,Michael Dewell,Carmen Zapata Pdf

Newly repackaged, three plays by Federico García Lorca In these three plays, Federico García Lorca's acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded his audience that dramatic poetry—or poetic drama—depends less on formal convention that on an elemental, radical outlook on human life. His images are beautiful and exact, but until now no translator had ever been able to make his characters speak unaffectedly on the American stage. Michael Dewell of the National Repertory Theatre and Carmen Zapata of the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts have created these versions expressly for the stage. The results, both performable and readable, have been thoroughly revised for this edition, which has an introduction by Christopher Maurer, the general editor of the Complete Poetical Works of García Lorca.

Author : Federico Garcia Lorca
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408126967

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The House of Bernarda Alba: A Modern Adaptation by Federico Garcia Lorca Pdf

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Author : Federico García Lorca
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0192839381

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Four Major Plays by Federico García Lorca Pdf

In his four last plays (Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba, Dona Rosita the Spinster) Federico Garc ́ia Lorca offered his disturbed and disturbing personal vision to Spanish audiences of the 1930s---unready, as he thought them, for the sexual frankness and surreal expression of his more experimental work. The authentic sense of danger of Lorca's theatre is finely conveyed here in John Edmunds's fluent and rhythmic new translations that lend themselves admirably to performance.

Author : Federico García Lorca
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350159297

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The House Of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca Pdf

Bernarda Alba is a widow, and her five daughters are incarcerated in mourning along with her. One by one they make a bid for freedom, with tragic consequences. Lorca's tale depicts the repression of women within Catholic Spain in the years before the war. The House of Bernarda Alba is Lorca's last and possibly finest play, completed shortly before he was murdered by Nationalist sympathisers at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Inspired by real characters and described by the author as 'a true record of village life', it is a tragic tale of frustration and explosive passions in a household of women rulled by a tyrannical mother. Edited with invaluable student notes - a must for students of Spanish drama

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410348432

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A Study Guide for Federico Garcia Lorca's "The House of Bernarda Alba" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Federico Garcia Lorca's "The House of Bernarda Alba," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Andrés Pérez-Simón
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000766578

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Baroque Lorca by Andrés Pérez-Simón Pdf

Baroque Lorca: An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage defines Federico García Lorca’s trajectory in the theater as a lifelong search for an audience. It studies a wide range of dramatic writings that Lorca created for the theater, in direct response to the conditions of his contemporary industry, and situates the theory and praxis of his theatrical reform in dialogue with other modernist renovators of the stage. This book makes special emphasis on how Lorca engaged with the tradition of Spanish Baroque, in particular with Cervantes and Calderón, to break away from the conventions of the illusionist stage. The five chapters of the book analyze Lorca’s different attempts to change the dynamics of the Spanish stage from 1920 to his assassination in 1936: His initial incursions in the arenas of symbolist and historical drama (The Butterfly’s Evil Spell, Mariana Pineda); his interest in puppetry (The Billy-Club Puppets and In the Frame of Don Cristóbal) and the two ‘human’ farces The Shoemaker’s Prodigious Wife and The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden; the central piece in his project of ‘impossible’ theater (The Public); his most explicitly political play, one that takes the violence to the spectators’ seats (The Dream of Life); and his three plays adopting, an altering, the contemporary formula of ‘rural drama’ (Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba). Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Federico García Lorca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Rural women
ISBN : 1840028912

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The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca Pdf

In the suffocating heat of summer, Bernarda Alba's house holds three generations of women in mourning. With few options for a life away from their grasping mother, five sisters fight each other for the attentions of the one man who could offer marriage and escape. The House of Bernarda Alba was the last play written by the celebrated Spanish writer, Federico García Lorca and was made into a successful TV film in 1991 starring Glenda Jackson and Joan Plowright.

Author : Federico García Lorca
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811200922

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Three Tragedies by Federico García Lorca Pdf

Here in the authorized translation by James Graham-Luján and Richard L. O'Connell, with an illuminating biographical introduction by the poet's brother, Francisco García Lorca, are three tragic dramas by the great modern Spanish poet and playwright which have caught the imagination and won the critical acclaim of the literate world.

Author : Federico Garcia Lorca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571227570

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House of Bernarda Alba - in a New English Version by David Hare by Federico Garcia Lorca Pdf

Author : Federico García Lorca
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015013308476

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The Rural Trilogy by Federico García Lorca Pdf

In recognition of the 50th anniversary of Lorca's death, here is the definitive edition of the three best-known plays of the master of 20th-century Spanish theatre. These brilliant translations capture all the intense power and beauty of the originals.

Author : Jo Clifford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Imperialism
ISBN : 1848427921

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Losing Venice by Jo Clifford Pdf

Jo Clifford's play Losing Venice is a joyously original, witty take-down of dangerously daft machismo and the deranged behaviour of countries that have lost an empire and still not yet found a role.