The House Of Bernarda Alba And Other Plays Av Federico Garcia Lorca

In <i>The House of Bernarda Alba</i>, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here also portray female characters whose desires are tragically and violently frustrated: a woman’s longing for a child in <i>Yerma</i>, and a bride’s yearning for her lover in <i>Blood Wedding</i>. All appeal for freedom and sexual and social equality, and are also passionate defences of the imagination: in Christopher Maurer’s words, ‘poetic drama unsurpassed by any writer of our time’.