Four Key Plays: The Audience, Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba

The Audience -- Blood wedding -- Yerma -- The House of Bernarda Alba.;"This anthology brings together four key plays by Frederico García Lorca, Spain's greatest modern dramatist, providing reliable translations into standard American English. The plays chosen for inclusion reveal the two poles of Lorca's dramatic output: his experimental "impossible theater," and his successful commercial theater, now together in one accessible volume" -- In addition to a substantial introduction to the life and works of Federico García Lorca—avant-garde poet, playwright, and soul of Spain's "Generation of '27"—this collection features vibrant new English translations of four of his plays. The legacy of a dramatic, religious, and social iconoclast whose death made him a martyr of the left in Civil-War Spain and who today is embraced as a gay icon shines through in Michael Kidd's stage-worthy renderings of Yerma , Blood Wedding , The House of Bernarda Alba , and a more experimental play, The Audience , a kaleidoscopic exploration of sexual identity and theater. "This anthology brings together four key plays by Frederico García Lorca, Spain's greatest modern dramatist, providing reliable translations into standard American English. The plays chosen for inclusion reveal the two poles of Lorca's dramatic output: his experimental "impossible theater," and his successful commercial theater, now together in one accessible volume" -- Provided by publisher