Bodas de sangre

Description:

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.

subjects: Spanish drama,  Spanish language books,  Drama,  Weddings,  Drama texts: from c 1900 -,  Plays,  Continental european drama (dramatic works by one author),  Drama (dramatic works by one author),  Criticism and interpretation,  Competition (Psychology),  Love,  Arranged marriage,  Arranged marriage--spain--drama,  Triangles (interpersonal relations),  Triangles (interpersonal relations)--drama,  Spanish drama--translations into english,  Spanish drama--20th century--translations into english,  Pq6613.a763 b613 1996b,  Translations into English

People: Federico García Lorca (1898-1936)

Times: 20th century