Federico Garcia Lorca's position as one of the few geniuses of the modern theatre was firmly established in the English-speaking world with his Three Tragedies. Here with an introduction by the dramatist's brother, Francisco Garcia Lorca, are five of his 'comedies, ' in the authorized translations, extensively revised to reflect recent Lorca scholarship and to convey the sparkle, freshness, and magic of the original Spanish.

Blood Wedding. Concerned with love that cannot become marriage among the primitive hill people of Castile, this is a play of the workings of tremendous passions and tribal ritual toward an inescapable tragic end. Yerma. The whole tragic burden of Yerma is measured by the deepening of her struggle with the problem of frustrated motherhood. From Garcia Lorca, by Edwin Honig. The House of Bernarda Alba. Again about women whom love moves to tragedy, Bernarda Alba tells of the repression of five daughters by a domineering mother, of how their natural...