Synopsis
Lorca Plays 2 - The Shoemaker's Wonderful Wife & The Love of Don Perlimplian & The Puppet Play of Don Cristiabal & The Butterfly's Evil Spell & When Five Years Pass
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Federico Garcia Lorca trans Gwynne Edwards
Published by Methuen
The Shoemaker's Wonderful Wife and The Love of Don Perlimplín
use an old story of the old man married to the young
wife to expose the social attitudes of a traditional
Spain bound by rigid concepts of decency, reputation and honour
The Puppet Play deploys the puppets' uninhibited and passionate emotions as a direct attack on the 'tedious triviality' of commercial theatre
The Butterfly's Evil Spell explores the themes of love and frustration, while When Five Years Pass is a surrealist play with references to the film Un Chien Andalou by Lorca's friend and collaborator, Luis Buñuel
"Lorca is one of the few indisputably great dramatists of the twentieth century" - Observer