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Three Plays: Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba

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Verde Que Te Quiero Verde
Lyrical, Passionate, Elemental
read and buy this book!!
Spain not Peru
Simply brilliant

Three Plays: Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba
Federico Garcia Lorca
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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ASIN: 0374523320

Book Description

In these three plays, 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 result, both performable and readable, has been thoroughly revised for this edition, which is introduced by Christopher Maurer, general editor of the Complete Poetical Works of García Lorca.

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Verde Que Te Quiero Verde.......2003-11-29

Here is one of Federico Garcia-Lorca's most famous poems, in Spanish. It will give you a taste of what it is like to read him in English or Spanish:

Verde que te quiero verde*
por F. García Lorca * Friday October 24, 2003 at 09:46 PM

Romance sonámbulo*

Verde que te quiero verde.
Verde viento. Verdes ramas.
El barco sobre la mar
y el caballo en la montaña.
Con la sombra en la cintura
ella sueña en su baranda,
verde carne, pelo verde,
con ojos de fría plata.
Verde que te quiero verde.
Bajo la luna gitana,
las cosas le están mirando
y ella no puede mirarlas.
*
Verde que te quiero verde.
Grandes estrellas de escarcha,
vienen con el pez de sombra
que abre el camino del alba.
La higuera frota su viento
con la lija de sus ramas,
y el monte, gato garduño,
eriza sus pitas agrias.
¿Pero quién vendrá? ¿Y por dónde...?
Ella sigue en su baranda,
verde carne, pelo verde,
soñando en la mar amarga.
*
Compadre, quiero cambiar
mi caballo por su casa,
mi montura por su espejo,
mi cuchillo por su manta.
Compadre, vengo sangrando,
desde los montes de Cabra.
Si yo pudiera, mocito,
ese trato se cerraba.
Pero yo ya no soy yo,
ni mi casa es ya mi casa.
Compadre, quiero morir
decentemente en mi cama.
De acero, si puede ser,
con las sábanas de holanda.
¿No ves la herida que tengo
desde el pecho a la garganta?
Trescientas rosas morenas
lleva tu pechera blanca.
Tu sangre rezuma y huele
alrededor de tu faja.
Pero yo ya no soy yo,
ni mi casa es ya mi casa.
Dejadme subir al menos
hasta las altas barandas,
dejadme subir, dejadme,
hasta las verdes barandas.
Barandales de la luna
por donde retumba el agua.
*
Ya suben los dos compadres
hacia las altas barandas.
Dejando un rastro de sangre.
Dejando un rastro de lágrimas.
Temblaban en los tejados
farolillos de hojalata.
Mil panderos de cristal,
herían la madrugada.
*
Verde que te quiero verde,
verde viento, verdes ramas.
Los dos compadres subieron.
El largo viento, dejaba
en la boca un raro gusto
de hiel, de menta y de albahaca.
¡Compadre! ¿Dónde está, dime?
¿Dónde está mi niña amarga?
¡Cuántas veces te esperó!
¡Cuántas veces te esperara,
cara fresca, negro pelo,
en esta verde baranda!
*
Sobre el rostro del aljibe
se mecía la gitana.
Verde carne, pelo verde,
con ojos de fría plata.
Un carámbano de luna
la sostiene sobre el agua.
La noche su puso íntima

como una pequeña plaza.
Guardias civiles borrachos,
en la puerta golpeaban.
Verde que te quiero verde.
Verde viento. Verdes ramas.
El barco sobre la mar.
Y el caballo en la montaña

Federico Garcia Lorca*

Lyrical, Passionate, Elemental.......2003-10-23

I saw BLOOD WEDDING and THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA on television during the '50s or '60s. I loved them so much, I got the books out of the library read and re-read them during high school.

Garcia Lorca is a master of language and poetry. His plays and poems are romantic, lyrical, and passionate.

THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA, BLOOD WEDDING, AND YERMA center on the urgent sexuality of women and the rage and pain that come when that sexuality is denied or thwarted. Lorca's plays are not pornographic or sexually explicit--rather they deal with drives, yearnings, impulses that inevitably flower, and how different characters in the play are affected by social pressures that allow--or restrain--her from expressing these ancient needs.

One reviewer included a quote in his review, and so will I--this poem will perhaps give the reader a sense of his style:

The Gypsy and the Wind

Playing her parchment moon
Precosia comes
along a watery path of laurels and crystal lights.
The starless silence, fleeing
from her rhythmic tambourine,
falls where the sea whips and sings,
his night filled with silvery swarms.
High atop the mountain peaks
the sentinels are weeping;
they guard the tall white towers
of the English consulate.
And gypsies of the water
for their pleasure erect
little castles of conch shells
and arbors of greening pine.

Playing her parchment moon
Precosia comes.
The wind sees her and rises,
the wind that never slumbers.
Naked Saint Christopher swells,
watching the girl as he plays
with tongues of celestial bells
on an invisible bagpipe.

Gypsy, let me lift your skirt
and have a look at you.
Open in my ancient fingers
the blue rose of your womb.

Precosia throws the tambourine
and runs away in terror.
But the virile wind pursues her
with his breathing and burning sword.

The sea darkens and roars,
while the olive trees turn pale.
The flutes of darkness sound,
and a muted gong of the snow.

Precosia, run, Precosia!
Or the green wind will catch you!
Precosia, run, Precosia!
And look how fast he comes!
A satyr of low-born stars
with their long and glistening tongues.

Precosia, filled with fear,
now makes her way to that house
beyond the tall green pines
where the English consul lives.

Alarmed by the anguished cries,
three riflemen come running,
their black capes tightly drawn,
and berets down over their brow.

The Englishman gives the gypsy
a glass of tepid milk
and a shot of Holland gin
which Precosia does not drink.

And while she tells them, weeping,
of her strange adventure,
the wind furiously gnashes
against the slate roof tiles.

Now imagine these words in Spanish!

read and buy this book!!.......2003-01-26

garcia lorca is simply a person who must be read.

And where has gone the Argentine "Valsa de Requerda??"" Where?

Spain not Peru.......2001-08-03

The trilogy by FGL, Yerma, Blood Wedding and The House of Bernarda Alba is set in Spain not Peru. They are an excellent portrayal of life in rural Spain during those times. A must read for anyone, but especially those who are studying Spanish literature. Allthough most widely known as a poet, FGL displays his talent for drama with these plays.

Simply brilliant.......2000-03-10

Lorca uses simple mathematical expressions to convey emotions. A colour, for example white, combined with an object, for example a baby in the opening sequence of Yerma, will add up to a symbolic meaning where either two factors can be used somewhere else. Basically, anything white is a dream of happiness which is destroyed by an event. This very basic set of symbols and the application of "equations" makes Lorca one of the most powerful and accessible writers i've come accross. Oh and the stories are good too (!)

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Blood Wedding
Sex, Violence, and Horses
Chose to perform

Blood Wedding: A Play
Federico Garcia Lorca
Manufacturer: Faber & Faber
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ASIN: 0571190065

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Lorca's Blood Wedding is a classic of twentieth-century theatre. The story is based on a newspaper fragment which told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with the son of the enemy family. Lorca uses it to investigate the subjects which fascinated him: desire, repression, ritual, and the constraints and commitments of the rural Spanish community in which the play is rooted. Ted Hughes's version stays close in spirit and letter to the original Spanish. With marvellous directness, he fuses Lorca's vision to his own, and the result is a powerful poetic text which captures all the violence and pathos of the play for an English-speaking audience.

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Blood Wedding.......2000-06-12

This is going to short, but I found the play below standards set by the author. There is weak imagery combined by poor, ineffective dialogue, yet there are nice character settings. There is a nice story line combining fire and passion in Leonardo's case with love for the bride, yet it is let down by the poor use of language. It is good for reading before bed, but other than that, I'd say "NO", like the "Just Say NO" drug ads.

Sex, Violence, and Horses.......1999-06-07

Lorca is often called the 20th century's greatest Spanish dramatist, and his skill with poetry in images of knives, sex, love, blood, horses and the moon illuminates this English translation. While my knowledge of Spanish is limited, the conflict of a Bride longing for but yet resisting another man who has already fathered a child by his Wife is poignantly portrayed in this version. The other man (Leonardo) rides a horse nearly to death, and rides like mad to see his about-to-be-married love beyond the peering eyes of others. His driven horse stands "down there stretched out, with his eyeballs bulging, heaving as if he'd just come back from the end of the world." The conflicts of love and the Bridegroom's Mother, who has lost her husband and her other son to violence, and the building passion, hate, love and the continual imagery of the wild horse--representing Leonardo himself?--build in poetic images and language that begins in the real and subtly transforms to surrealistic images of the moon who exposes the hidden shadows, then returns to the poetically real. In some aspects, the images of horse and rider hint at the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, but a knowledge of them is unnecessary to experience the passion of this play written by a friend of the then young Salvador Dali. The play is worth reading for its visual imagery alone, but it also encompasses a powerful story of passion, betrayal, hate, violence and love.

Chose to perform.......1998-05-15

This will be a very brief review, but basically we have chosen this book to perform for or theatre studies cat. It is a really good play, and I recomend it to anyone who likes reading plays.

Bodas De Sangre / Blood Wedding (Letras Hispanicas)

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Bodas De Sangre / Blood Wedding (Letras Hispanicas)
Federico Garcia Lorca
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Lorca Plays: One/Blood Wedding/Dona Rosita the Spinster/Yerma (World Dramatists Series)

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Spain's most celebrated dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) was murdered by Nationalist sympathizers shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. His plays are renowned for their evocation of the profound and primitive passions of Spanish peasant life, displaying an innovative mixture of modern dramatic technique with Spanish popular tradition. This volume contains three of his greatest plays and Lorca's intense, lyrical dialogue is perfectly captured in translations of Blood Wedding and Dona Rosita the Spinster by Gwynne Edwards and Yerma by Peter Luke.

Blood Wedding and Yerma (Tcg Translations, No 5)

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Lorca is misunderstood by small minds
He captures human nature and sexuality very passionately!
I did not like it at all.
A great play in which many important themes are presented

Blood Wedding and Yerma (Tcg Translations, No 5)
Federico Garcia Lorca , Langston Hughes , and W. S. Merwin
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Lorca is misunderstood by small minds.......2000-03-02

I find it quite amazing that readers find themselves capable of disregarding a playwright's work simply because they have read what could well be a bad edition! This edition of Lorca's Yerma and Blood Wedding is definitely not among the best I have read; others do more justice to the original works. Obviously, much of the content and passion is lost upon translation. I have had the privilege of reading most of Lorca's work in Spanish and must say that he is indeed one of the most influential and talented playwrights (and poets) of our time. Lorca's work is infused with the beauty and passion of the Spanish people and culture and it is quite difficult for us considerably less emotional Americans to understand, let alone feel the intensity of such power; again, this has a lot to do with reading it in English.

He captures human nature and sexuality very passionately!.......1999-10-22

I read the review of comyking@home.net and I think that you need to develop literary skills(An education perhaps?!). Maybe then you will undrstand what literature is about. Yerma and La casa de Bernada Alba are two of the most fascinating books I have ever read. They depict the life and frustrations faced by females in an era when chastity, "social stauts and appearance" influenced a woman's life. I think these books are extremely interesting and insightful. One must have an exceptional literary background to appreciate this type of literature.

I did not like it at all........1999-06-06

The book was trash. It had no plot, no story, and no action. I couldn't wait to put it down it was so bad, but I had jury duty and there was nothing else to do. I wish I had brought a different book. PLEASE DO NOT GET CAUGHT IN THE SAME SITUATION!!! THIS BOOK IS HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A great play in which many important themes are presented.......1999-02-07

This is one of Lorca's most interesting plays, in which a dominant and strict mother controls the lives of her daughters. Many themes are expressed in this play: social pressure, love, dominance, etc.

Bodas De Sangre / Blood Wedding (Coleccion Cara Y Cruz)

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Three Plays In One Volume: the Bride Of Messina, Or The Enemy Brothers; William Tell; Demetrius, Or The Blood Wedding In Moscow
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Blood Wedding, Yerma and the House of Bernard Alba: Garcia Lorca's Tragic Trilogy (Twayne Masterwork Series, No 71)
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Three Plays: Blood Wedding/Yerma/the House of Bernada Alba

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Repression

Three Plays: Blood Wedding/Yerma/the House of Bernada Alba
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Repression.......2000-06-25

This book encapsulates three of Lorca's most famous and indeed interesting plays, together with brief reviews, into one volume. Blood Wedding tells the story of a scandal set in Andalucia in the south of Spain. Based on a real story which Lorca discovered in the local press, it examines the rigid social structure of Spain at that period. The imagery is strong, drawing comparisons to the arid landscape of the area and the weak willed men, and emphasising the true romanticism which the 'ill starred lovers' experience. The story is intriguingly similar to Romeo and Juliet and yet very much a story in its own right, due to its social comments, and the fact that, along with 'La Casa de Bernarda Alba' in particular, reveals much about the sexual repression that Lorca himself experienced, given that he was homosexual in a strongly catholic country. 'The House of Bernarda Alba' is also cleverly included in this trilogy, providing valuable comparisons with the other two texts. About a fatherless household, again in Andalucia, it tells how natural passion overrides the social rules which bind the young women in the house, who ultimately rebel against their matriarch, the tyrannical Bernarda Alba. This story is again centralised around the power of our basic instincts, but does not have the same beauty, due to the lack of mutual love between the characters. Where Leonardo in Blood Wedding did what he did for true love, Pepe El Romano is a far more shallow character, looking to have his cake and eat it. Yerma is the third rural tragedy, along similar lines as the other two plays, it is about the frustration of a childless young wife, not permitted to fulfil her natural abilities. Lorca examines here the role of women in the repressive suffocating heat of Spanish culture, and asks some interesting questions, perhaps inspired by his sensitivity to their situation.

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bodas de sangre
---Bodas de sangre.--- Federico Garcia Lorca.

Bodas De Sangre / Blood Wedding
Federico Garcia Lorca
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En la rígida España de principios de siglo, un pueblo se prepara para una gran fiesta. Pero las pasiones ocultas y la sangre que hierve bajo las pieles ardientes tuercen el rumbo de la historia. La boda tan esperada resulta en duelo, la luna se tiñe de rojo. Y la muerte, el sino trágico, se cierne sobre los actores del drama, haciendo de "Bodas de sangre" un clásico del teatro español.

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bodas de sangre.......2005-09-01

tremenda porqueria de libro,e leido muchas novelas y esta es la peor de todas,fue una perdida de tiempo y dinero.

---Bodas de sangre.--- Federico Garcia Lorca........2001-01-25

Sinceramente recomiendo este libro, a todos aquellos que sean amantes de la literatura llena de sentimientos y no les importe derramar algunas lagrimas.

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