Synopsis
The House of Bernarda Alba - La Casa De Bernarda Alba
Federico Garcia Lorca - Spanish & English text with Commentary & Notes - trans Gwynne Edwards
Published by Methuen
One by one they make a bid for freedom, with tragic consequences
Lorca's tale depicts the repression of women within Catholic Spain in the years before the war
The House of Bernarda Alba is Lorca's last and possibly finest play, completed shortly before he was murdered by Nationalist sympathisers at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War
Inspired by real characters and described by the author as 'a true record of village life', it is a tragic tale of frustration and explosive passions in a household of women rulled by a tyrannical mother
Edited with invaluable student notes - a must for students of Spanish drama