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Blood Wedding
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This work will appeal to readers interested in classic twentieth-century theatre, Spanish culture, poetic drama, and those who appreciate emotionally powerful narratives dealing with deep human conflicts and societal traditions.
Based on a bride who ran away with the son of an enemy family, this work investigates desire, depression and the constraints of the rural Spanish community in which the play is rooted.
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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 fused 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.
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ISBN: 9780571190065
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 23 September 1996
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 5.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 200.0mm
Weight: 85g
Pages: 80
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Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936), poet and dramatist was one the greatest Spanish writers of the twentieth-century. He was killed by Nationalist partisans at the age of thirty-eight at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 by Faber & Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children. He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for two consecutive years for his last published collections of poetry, Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters. He was Poet Laureate from 1984, and in 1998 he was appointed to the Order of Merit.
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